The usefulness of bromcresol green for estimating albumin in urine was evaluated by comparison with the Laurell "rocket" technique. In contrast to the bromcresol green method applied for urinary albumin, rather doubtful results were obtained with conventional (Microzone) electrophoresis for albumin and with precipitation techniques for total protein estimation. Albumin estimation with bromcreso...

Bush and Reed reported (Clin Chem 1987;33:821-3) that the reaction of albumin with bromcresol purple but not with bromcresol green underestimated the concentration of albumin in synthetically obtained bilirubin-albumin (Bd) by 29%. Their unproven assumption was that chemically synthesized Bd behaved in a manner indistinguishable from the natural Bd in icteric serum. Here we verify that Bd, whet...

1076 CLINICALCHEMISTRY, Vol. 33, No. 6, 1987 second, there was a large paraprotein band at 29 gIL in the beta region, which was determined to be an 1gM-kappa by immunofixation electrophoresis. To determine whether the presence of the paraprotein or an unusual property of this patient’s albumin was responsible for the inability to quantil albumin by bromcresol green binding, I isolated the patie...

In a convenient and direct method for determination of albumin in human serum, based on the decrease in absorbance of a neutral buffered solution of bromcresol green when albumin combines with the indicator, serum is diluted with a solution of bromcresol green of sufficient concentration to allow essentially linear change of absorbance with albumin concentration. Measurements are made at 615 mi...

Monochromatic measurement of albumin by the bromcresol green method leads to overestimation of albumin in the presence of heparin. The interference seems to be caused by fibrinogen, which, in the presence of heparin, produces an almost constant increase of the measuring signal over the whole range of suitable wavelengths (550 to 700 nm). The albumin overestimation can be eliminated by using a b...

The albumin values determined by the bromcresol green methods do not compare well with values by more specific methods for albumin determination. The discrepancies have been related to, among other things, acute-phase reactants and are especially pronounced in the lower albumin range. These disadvantages are also inherent in a routine continuous-flow method for albumin (SMAC). The bromcresol gr...