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JTCB. 2003 Apr 1; 1 (1) : 015-018

Automatized Determination of Serum Sulfhydryl Groups by a Method Adapted to Hitachi 911 Clinical Chemistry Analyzer

1 Afyon Kocatepe Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Biyokimya Anabilim Dalı, Afyon

Abstract

Biological thiols are one of the most important anti-oxidant defense mechanism in protecting cells against oxidative stress. Their determination in biological materials is carried out mainly by different spectrophotometric assays. In this study; one of the commonly used spectrophotometric assay was adapted to Hitachi 911 Clinical Chemistry Analyzer. Precision and accuracy studies were performed. Inter-assay precision was between 1.8-2.6% (n=15) while intra-assay precision was found to be between 1.4-1.9% (n=15). The obtained recoveries were between 94.6-97.5%. The linearity of the assay was up to 9000 mol/L. The automatized assay correlates well to spectrophotometric assay and gave regression equation of y=0.817x+58.75 (r 2=0.95). In healthy volunteers, total sulfhydryl levels were found to be ranging from 606-757 mol/L. This assay is fully automated and assay time is 5 min. As it is time-saving and reproducible, large number of samples could be processed and this assay could aid the follow up of different pathologic conditions.

Citation

Serteser, Mustafa, Tülay Köken, and Ahmet Kahraman. 2003. “Automatized Determination of Serum Sulfhydryl Groups by a Method Adapted to Hitachi 911 Clinical Chemistry Analyzer”. Journal of Turkish Clinical Biochemistry 1 (1):015-018. https://turkclinbiochem.org/index.php/pub/article/view/1.

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