Multivalent dextran reagent for use in precipitation tests

US5627078A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Boehringer Mannheim GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Johann Karl · Peißenberg, DE
• Josef Maier · Eichstätt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 1, 1994
• Grant date: May 6, 1997
• Expiry date: Jun 1, 2014

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N33/548
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The present invention concerns a multivalent dextran reagent for use in a precipitation test for the determination of a specifically bindable substance comprising dextran to which several molecules of a receptor R.sub.1 which is capable of specific binding to the substance to be determined or of the specifically bindable substance or of an analogue of this substance are bound or can be bound.