Establishment of a reference ELISA for measurement of universal thresholds of pregnanediol glucuronide excretion rates using urine samples diluted to a constant volume per unit time.

An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for measurement of pregnanediol-3α-glucuronide (PdG) excretion rates in urine samples diluted to 150 mL/h before analysis is described. The sensitivity of the 9 optimized standard curves was 0.093 ± 0.

Characterization of the 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC) oxidase multigene family of Malus domestica Borkh.

Two 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC) oxidase (ACO) genes have been cloned from RNA isolated from leaf tissue of apple (Malus domestica cv. Royal Gala). The genes, designated MD-ACO2 (with an ORF of 990bp) and MD-ACO3 (966bp) have been compared with a previously cloned gene of apple, MD-ACO1 (with an ORF of 942bp).

Validation of a reference ELISA for estrone glucuronide using urine samples normalized by dilution to a constant rate of urine production.

A direct enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) system has been optimized as a reference method for the measurement of first statistically significant rises in estrone glucuronide excretion rates in human urine by analysing samples pre-diluted at the time of the collection by the women subjects to a constant urine production rate of 150 mL/h. Validation was achieved by correlation of the individual menstrual cycle profiles with the corresponding estrone glucuronide excretion rates determined by radioimmunoassay (RIA) on the same urine samples for a total of 221 samples from nine cycles. The pre-dilution procedure removed random variations due to fluctuations in the daily rate of urine excretion and minimized between sample matrix effects.