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A sensitive flow injection (FI) chemiluminescence (CL) method was developed for the determination of trace amounts of progesterone. This method was based on the luminescent properties of the tris(1,10-phenanthroline) ruthenium(II) - potassium permanganate (KMnO4 ) - progesterone in acidic medium sensitized by Na2 SO3 . With the peak height as a quantitative parameter applying optimum conditions, the relative CL intensity was linear with progesterone concentration in the range of 1.0 × 10(-10) ∼ 6.0 × 10(-9) g·ml(-1) and 6.0 × 10(-9) ∼ 4.0 × 10(-8) g·ml(-1) with a detection limit of 7.1 × 10(-11) g·ml(-1) . The relative standard deviation (RSD) was 2.79% for 1.0 × 10(-8) g·ml(-1) progesterone (n = 11). The proposed method held low detection limit and was successfully applied to determination of progesterone in pharmaceutical preparations. The possible CL reaction mechanism was also discussed.

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We describe a method for determining haptoglobin with a centrifugal analyzer that is based on haptoglobin combining stoichiometrically with hemoglobin to form a complex that has peroxidase-like activity proportional to the quantity of haptoglobin present. Under assay conditions, unbound hemoglobin exhibits only a small fraction of the total peroxidase activity. Activity is measured colorimetrically at 405 nm after reaction with o-dianisdine and ethyl hydrogen peroxide. The procedure is standardized by saturating aknown amount of hemoglobin with a serum whose hemoglobin binding capacity exceeds the amount of hemoglobin in the assay system. The mean and mean within-run precision of our method, determined by performing 17 replicate assays of both a pooled normal serum and a 10-fold dilution of the serum, was 1.13 g/liter (CV, 2.9%), and 106 mg/liter (cv, 5.8%), respectively. The 95 percentile estimate of the normal range by our method is 0.45-1.85 g/liter hemoglobin binding capacity. When results by our automated method were compared to those by a manual method [Scand. J. Clin. Lab. 2nvest. 18, 80 (1965)], the slope of the unweighted linear least-squares regression line was .970 the y-intercept 26 mg/liter, and the correlation coefficient .995.

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