Antibody class-specific interference eliminating reagent

US5965378A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Roche Diagnostics GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Dittmar Schlieper · Weilheim, DE
• Helmut Lenz · Tutzing, DE
• Urban Schmitt · Oberhausen, DE
• Volker Klemt · Waldshut-Tiengen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 24, 1997
• Grant date: Oct 12, 1999
• Expiry date: Apr 24, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S530/866
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The invention concerns a composition composed of several different antibodies or/and antibody fragments which is suitable as a reagent to reduce interferences in an immunological method for the class-specific detection of antibodies from one or several of the immunoglobulin classes G, M, A, D and E.