Abstract

A competitive enzyme-linked immunoassay (CELIA) technique for quantitative measurement of apolipoprotein B (Apo B) was developed. The method is a non-isotopic immunoassay that utilizes a soluble enzyme/antibody complex as a universal labeling reagent. The method was characterized according to precision, sensitivity, recovery and parallelism. The CELIA Apo B method was compared to a commercially available laser nephelometric immunoassay. We found that the nephelometric results were highly correlated with triglyceride levels and the nephelometric assay was susceptible to interference from lipemia or turbidity. The range of values obtained on 56 apparently healthy, fasting young adults was 0.35–1.25 g/1 by the CELIA method and 0.40-1.00 g/1 by the nephelometric immunoassay. The nephelometric method was more precise (coefficient of variation 5%) than the CELIA technique (CV 10%); however, the CELIA method seems to be less sensitive to interferences.

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