title: Determination of immunoreactive endothelin in medium from cultured endothelial cells and human plasma.
abstract: We have developed a sensitive and selective radioimmunoassay for porcine/human endothelin (ET1). The assay has a detection limit of 0.62 pg/tube and exhibits no cross-reactivity to atrial natriuretic peptide, arginine vasopressin, or angiotensin II. Procedures were developed for extraction of endothelin from human plasma samples and samples of buffer from endothelial cell incubations using C18 Sep-Pak extraction cartridges. The mean recovery following extraction was approximately 80%. Both bovine and porcine aortic endothelial cells were found to produce immunoreactive endothelin (IR-ET) with porcine cells producing 4.7 +/- 1.1 ng of IR-ET/mg cell protein after 6 hours. Human plasma samples were extracted, assayed and found to contain a mean concentration of 2.0 +/- 0.4 pg/ml of IR-ET.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710.
authors.forename: Y T
authors.initials: YT
authors.lastname: Xuan
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Whorton
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Shearer-Poor
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Boyd
authors.forename: W D
authors.initials: WD
authors.lastname: Watkins
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D003470:Culture Media; D016232:Endothelins; D004730:Endothelium, Vascular / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D010455:Peptides / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000378:metabolism*; D011863:Radioimmunoassay; D013552:Swine
chemical_list: D003470:Culture Media; D016232:Endothelins; D010455:Peptides