Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Automated calcitonin assays are one-step sandwich chemiluminescence immunoassay, intended for the quantitative determination of calcitonin in human serum. Calcitonin is the most specific and sensitive marker of medullar thyroid carcinoma for both primary diagnosis and the post-surgical follow-up. Recently a new fast and high throughput Calcitonin II-Gen assay developed on the fully automated LIAISON instruments, which is suitable for high working capacity laborat...

Introduction: Insulin-like growth factor 1 is a single-chain polypeptide of 70 amino acids. Quantitative determination of IGF1 is a one-step sandwich chemiluminescence immunoassay (CLIA). IGF1 is being used by physicians as a screening test for GH deficiency and excess. It became crucial to find an alternative automated platform for the current available methods.Design: Evaluation took place in an HMO central lab, currently using the SIEMENS IMMULITE 200...