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Optically measuring an immunologically active material by degree of agglutination of an antigen-antibody reaction product

US5534441A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJan 13, 1995
Grant dateJul 9, 1996
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Expiry dateJan 13, 2015

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  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S436/814
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

There are provided a method and an apparatus for measuring an immunologically active material by physically or chemically immobilizing a material being immunologically active to a material to be measured of a specimen onto dehydrated solid fine particles, providing a desired dispersed body of said immunologically active material immobilized onto said solid fine particles in a dispersing medium, adding the specimen to said dispersed body while stirring to react the specimen with the immunologically active material, thereby causing a reaction mixture in an agglutinated state and optically measuring said agglutinated state of the reaction mixture to thereby quantitatively determine the content of the material to be measured with an improved accuracy.

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