Abstract
A radioimmunoassay (RIA) has been developed for the determination of α-human atrial natriuretic polypeptide (α-hANP) in human plasma. Antibodies generated in rabbits recognized α-hANP-related peptides containing the subsequence flanked by two cysteine residues at position 7 and 23 equally. Radiolabelled tracer prepared by iodination with chloramine-T method was purified by high performance liquid chromatography. Immunoreactive (ir-) α-hANP was extracted from human plasma by Sep-Pak C 18 column. The plasma ir-α-hANP concentrations in normal, healthy adults were 178±16 pg/ml in male and 182±18 pg/ml in female, respectively. Plasma ir-α-hANP increased significantly after acute intravenous administration of isotonic saline. Plasma levels were elevated in patients with various disease states accompanying increased body fluid volume, whereas those in patients with idiopathic edema were decreased despite excessive salt and water retention. These results suggest that α-hANP plays an important role in the regulation of body fluids and may have primary or secondary pathophysiological significance in various disease states.
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