Abstract
After a polyethylene glycol extraction which removes monomeric immunoglobulin G (IgG), circulating immune complexes were assayed by the FIAX fluorescence assay (Whittaker M. A. Bioproducts, Walkersville, Md.). The extraction portion of the procedure can be completed within a few hours after an overnight precipitation step, and the fluorescence assay takes about 0.5 h. The fluorescence assay is similar to the routine FIAX method for measuring IgG in cerebrospinal fluid except that a 10-microliter sample from sera is substituted for a 50-microliter sample. Good parallelism between endogenous immune complexes, monomeric IgG, and aggregated human globulin, along with good between-run precision (coefficients of variation, less than 10%), indicates that monomeric IgG calibrators from the kit could be used to standardize the assay. This standardization eliminates the need for aggregated human globulin, which is unstable and difficult to prepare. A reference range of 9 to 63 mg/liter followed a gaussian distribution. Correlation data indicate that the test provides information similar to the C1q-binding test (rho = 0.87; n = 30) but has better diagnostic sensitivity and better discrimination in the high range. Because of its simplicity, good reproducibility, and accessibility to equipment available in many laboratories, the method described here may be a preferred technique for measuring circulating immune complexes.
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