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. 2018 Jan 26;56(2):249-255.
doi: 10.1515/cclm-2017-0313.

Oxidation of PTH: in vivo feature or effect of preanalytical conditions?

Stan R Ursem  1 , Marc G Vervloet  2   3 , Jacquelien J G Hillebrand  4 , Renate T de Jongh  5 , Annemieke C Heijboer  1
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Oxidation of PTH: in vivo feature or effect of preanalytical conditions?

Stan R Ursem et al. Clin Chem Lab Med. .

Abstract

Background: Posttranslational oxidation of parathyroid hormone (PTH) modifies its biological activity. Measurement of non-oxidized PTH (n-oxPTH) could be an improvement in assessing PTH status, as intact PTH may rather reflect oxidative stress. However, it is debated whether oxidation of PTH occurs in vivo, or whether it is mainly an in vitro artifact. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of different preanalytical conditions on the oxidation of PTH within a wide range of plasma PTH concentrations and oxidation propensity.

Methods: n-oxPTH was separated from its oxidized form using an affinity column capturing the oxidized PTH. n-oxPTH was measured in eluate using commercially available PTH assays. The study included ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid plasma samples from 17 patients undergoing hemodialysis and 32 healthy subjects. We determined effects of storage temperature, time until centrifugation and freeze-thaw cycles. PTH and n-oxPTH concentrations were measured in each sample using six different immunoassays.

Results: n-oxPTH concentrations remained unchanged up to 180 min until centrifugation, two freeze-thaw cycles or after storage at -20°C or -80°C up to 79 days. Various methods for n-oxPTH and PTH measurements yielded highly comparable results, apart from standardization differences between various PTH and n-oxPTH assays.

Conclusions: n-oxPTH concentrations were stable under our study conditions, indicating negligible ex vivo oxidation of PTH. In addition, PTH immunoassays have a different sensitivity for n-oxPTH than for total PTH. For this reason, the n-oxPTH/total PTH ratio cannot be used in absence of a n-oxPTH standard. Clinical implications of determining n-oxPTH require additional study.

Keywords: bone turnover markers; hemodialysis; method comparison; oxidative stress; parathyroid hormone; preanalytical phase.

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