title: Anticonvulsants in serum, determined with a fully mechanized enzyme analyzer.
abstract: The "EMIT" enzyme immunoassay system (Syva) that involves use of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.49) as the enzyme label has been adapted to a fully mechanized kinetic enzyme analyzer for analysis of phenobarbital, phenytoin, and primidone. This procedure, compared with the gas-chromatographic procedure of Kupferberg [Clin. Chim. Acta 29, 283 (1970)], gave a weighted regression line--forced through the origin--of y=(1.01+/-0.04) x for phenobarbital, y=(0.95+/-0.04) x for primidone. Within-run coefficients of variation based on single determinations were 9,11, and 22% for primidone, phenobarbital, and phenytoin, respectively. Run-to-run assay CV was 6% for primidone and phenobarbital and 13% for phenytoin, based on the means of triplicate determinations of a sample with a mid-range concentration.
mesh_terms: D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005954:Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase; D006801:Humans; D007124:Immunoenzyme Techniques; D010634:Phenobarbital / Q000097:blood*; D010672:Phenytoin / Q000097:blood*; D011324:Primidone / Q000097:blood*
chemical_list: D011324:Primidone; D010672:Phenytoin; D005954:Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase; D010634:Phenobarbital