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Laboratory study demonstrates rapid separation of free and bound insulin using dextran-coated charcoal, indicating a simplified immunoassay for biologic fluids.
Charcoal premixed with dextran of average molecular weight 80,000 almost instantly adsorbs free insulin but rejects antibody-bound insulin. The use of such dextran-coated charcoal makes simpler and more rapid the immunoassay of insulin in biologic fluids, using radioisotope dilution with 131I-insulin and “biopsy” of the insulin pool by antibody to insulin. The procedure here described yields a straight line graph when insulin added is plotted against insulin recovered.
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