OBJECTIVE: We developed assays for measurement of urinary betaLH and betaFSH under collection and storage conditions typical of non-clinical research settings. DESIGN AND METHODS: IEMAs for free betaLH and total betaFSH were validated by standard methods. Stability of urinary betaLH and betaFSH was tested across freeze-thaws and stored long term at 4 degrees C or -20 degrees C, or short term at room temperature, and with heating to dissociate the subunits. RESULTS: The IEMAs exhibited acceptable parallelism, specificity, recovery (averaging 100% for betaLH, 97% for betaFSH), imprecision (maximum within-run and between run CVs, respectively, 4.8% and 25.7% for betaLH, 5.6% and 17.0% for betaFSH), and minimum detectable dose (2.5 pmol/L for betaLH, 6.8 pmol/L for betaFSH). Urine and serum measures were highly correlated (r=0.95 for LH, 0.86 for FSH). There was no consistent decline with any storage type. Dissociation of subunits by heating was needed for betaLH, but not betaFSH. CONCLUSION: These IEMAs measure free betaLH and total betaFSH, overcoming inter-individual variability in, and collection and storage effects on, subunit dissociation, without the need for urine preservatives.
OBJECTIVE: We developed assays for measurement of urinary betaLH and betaFSH under collection and storage conditions typical of non-clinical research settings. DESIGN AND METHODS: IEMAs for free betaLH and total betaFSH were validated by standard methods. Stability of urinary betaLH and betaFSH was tested across freeze-thaws and stored long term at 4 degrees C or -20 degrees C, or short term at room temperature, and with heating to dissociate the subunits. RESULTS: The IEMAs exhibited acceptable parallelism, specificity, recovery (averaging 100% for betaLH, 97% for betaFSH), imprecision (maximum within-run and between run CVs, respectively, 4.8% and 25.7% for betaLH, 5.6% and 17.0% for betaFSH), and minimum detectable dose (2.5 pmol/L for betaLH, 6.8 pmol/L for betaFSH). Urine and serum measures were highly correlated (r=0.95 for LH, 0.86 for FSH). There was no consistent decline with any storage type. Dissociation of subunits by heating was needed for betaLH, but not betaFSH. CONCLUSION: These IEMAs measure free betaLH and total betaFSH, overcoming inter-individual variability in, and collection and storage effects on, subunit dissociation, without the need for urine preservatives.
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