Enzyme reference materials: their place indiagnostic enzyrnology

摘要

Estimations of the activities of various enzymes in clinical samplesare routine tasks for clinical chemists. Most of this work is doneby automatic analysis. The reference ranges against which patients'results are interpreted, however, have generally been defined in termsof manual methods and the conditions of a manual method cannotbe reproduced in automated systems. This paper describes thepossibility of translating the results of enzyme analysis into acommon currency through the use of enzyme reference materials ascalibrators.