Use of the bicinchoninic acid assay in measuring urinary proteins.

Uric acid Oreatinine Glucose Ornithine Spermine Guanidinoacetate Arginine Taurine “Aper 1.0mL at g/L A (and SD) iO.i4 (1.30) 52.8 (6.1) 5.89 (.67) .355 (.039) .247 (.101) .191 (.050) .099 (.055) <0.020 <0.020 a concentration of 1.0 indicate a stable or improving state and the second a deteriorating state, because Annesley et al. (2) reported high proportions of MM-i in serum in improving or stablemuscle disease and reduced proportions in deteriorating disease. However, Annesley et al. used the reverse nomenclature, whereby MM-i refers to the most cathodal MM sub-band. Misinterpretation of reported observationsbecause ofnomenclatureconfusionhighlights the need for an accepted nomenclature. We would favor the immediate adoption of the convention whereby MM-i represents the most anodal sub-band. Where the MM isoenzyme is designed as CK-3, the subtypes should begiven lower case letters (3a, 3b, 3c) consecutively from the anode. A similar convention should apply to the naming ofMB (OK-2) sub-types.