FLUOROMETRIC STUDY OF THE PARTITION OF BILIRUBIN AMONG BLOOD COMPONENTS - BASIS FOR RAPID MICROASSAYS OF BILIRUBIN AND BILIRUBIN BINDING-CAPACITY IN WHOLE-BLOOD
FLUOROMETRIC STUDY OF THE PARTITION OF BILIRUBIN AMONG BLOOD COMPONENTS - BASIS FOR RAPID MICROASSAYS OF BILIRUBIN AND BILIRUBIN BINDING-CAPACITY IN WHOLE-BLOOD
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DOI:
10.1016/0003-2697(79)90105-2
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发表时间:
1979-01-01
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
FLORES, J
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作者:
LAMOLA, AA;EISINGER, J;FLORES, J
Bilirubin bounds to many sites in blood, the strongest binding being to a single site on albumin. Secondary sites on albumin, most sites on other plasma proteins and sites on erythrocyte membranes had affinities for bilirubin that were at most 1/100 as great. Bilirubin binds to Hb in red cells with an effective affinity that is less than 1/1000 that of the primary albumin site. Essentially the only bilirubin present in blood which fluoresced was that bound to the primary albumin site. Almost all the other bilirubin in blood fluoresced with a yield no more than 1/50 as large. Quantitative fluorometry of whole blood was possible using the front-face technique. The concentration of bilirubin bound to the primary albumin site could be determined in this way. The albumin binding capacity of a blood specimen could be similarly assayed upon titration of the specimen with bilirubin. The nonionic detergent dodecyldimethylamine oxide (DDAO) scavenged bilirubin from all sites in blood, and, since bilirubin was fluorescent in DDAO micelles, the total blood bilirubin could be assayed fluorometrically after addition of DDAO to the specimen. This detergent method also allowed facile assay of red-cell-bound bilirubin. These fluorometric assays for total blood bilirubin, albumin-bound bilirubin and albumin binding capacity were simple and rapid and used very small volumes of blood. They should be of great value in the research on neonatal jaundice and in its clinical management.