These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed


  • Title: Effect of creatine kinase-MM subtype composition on a CK-MB immunoinhibition assay.
    Author: Morison IM, Clayson KJ, Fine JS.
    Journal: Clin Chem; 1988 Mar; 34(3):535-8. PubMed ID: 3349605.
    Abstract:
    Immunoinhibition (INH) by use of polyclonal anti-human CK-M antibody may be used to measure CK-MB in serum. Previous studies have shown that inhibiting antibodies prepared against purified muscle extracts may inhibit CK-MM by greater than 99%. Using patients' sera and muscle homogenates incubated with human serum, we studied the effect of CK-MM subtype composition on an INH assay. We found that with increasing time from the CK-releasing event, e.g., myocardial infarction, or with longer in vitro incubation, the proportion of CK-MM1 increased and the proportion of uninhibited CK-MM increased from 0.2% to 0.7-0.8%. As a consequence, CK-MB activity may be overestimated by as much as 1.6% of total CK when uncorrected INH results are used. Inhibition was maximal in samples containing 100% CK-MM3, the tissue subtype. Because of the time-dependent change in CK-MM subtypes, published results for INH from studies in which CK-MM purified from muscle was used may not be directly applicable to clinical specimens.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]