2. Incubation of sample in complete reagent (8, 14, 15)
Advantage: Serum start may be used.
Disadvantage: Complete reactivation is not reached in al l
sera.
3. Addition of P-5'-P, 250 umol/L in TRIS buffer to sample
(7-9, 16, 17)
Advantage: Complete activation.
Serum start is possible.
Disadvantage: Requires an additional, manual analytical step.
The activation time may be as long as 30 minutes,
and the lag-phase increases to 5 minutes or more
for some sera (5, 8, 9)
Increased absorbance at 405 - 410 nm.
The time required for complete activation varies considerably
among individual sera. In the IFCC ASAT and ALAT Reference
Methods procedure l
a~d
an activation time of 10 minutes were
recornrnended. However, activation by procedure l will be comp–
lete for the majority of sera within 5 minutes. Accordingly,
this activation time was se1ected for the ECCLS standard Met–
hods 2 - 3 for ASAT and ALAT determinations.
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