Boehringer Mannheim Gmbh

Alexander Hagen

Joachim Ziegenhorn

Wolfgang Gruber

Sigmar Klose

Gunter Weimann

August W Wahlefeld

Ulfert Deneke

Ulrich Neumann

Elli Rauscher

Hermann Edelmann

Hans Ulrich Bergmeyer

Eugen Schaich

Eberhard Munz

Hans-Georg Batz

Klaus Beaucamp

Gunter Lang

Peter Roeschlau

Erich Bernt

Brigitte Draeger

Karlheinz Mann

Helmut Determann

Gerhard Michal

August Wilhelm Wahlefeld

Karl-Wolfgang Knitsch

Peter Kraft

Michal Gerhard

Peter Schuler

Wolfgang Gruaber

Michael Stoltz

.alpha.-Amylase is determined by the enzymatic splitting of an .alpha.-amylase substrate and measurement of a fission product, wherein there is used as a substrate a maltoheptaose compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein R is a glucoside, phenylglucoside, mononitrophenylglucoside, dinitrophenylglucoside, sorbitol or gluconic acid group. Reagents comprising such a substrate and a system for the determination of a fission product formed from the amylase substrate by .alpha.-amylase, are also provided. A process for the preparation of a maltoheptaose will Bacillus macerans amylase, free of p-nitrophenyl-alpha-glucoside splitting activity is disclosed.

Process for preparing a maltoheptaose derivative

.alpha.-Amylase is determined by the enzymatic splitting of an .alpha.-amylase substrate and measurement of a fission product, wherein there is used as a substrate a maltoheptaose compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein R is a glucoside, phenylglucoside, mononitrophenylglucoside, dinitrophenylglucoside, sorbitol or gluconic acid group. Reagents comprising such a substrate and a system for the determination of a fission product formed from the amylase substrate by .alpha.-amylase, are also provided.

Process and reagent for the determination of .alpha.-amylase

The invention provides a process for the production of reagent solutions containing a plurality of components for analytical purposes, wherein the individual components of several differently composed reagents are each introduced into a solid, proportionable carrier material in easily redissolvable form in such an amount that each part by volume or weight of the carrier material carries a definite amount of one reagent component, the carriers of the components are brought together in a magazine-like manner and, for the production of a particular reagent, from all carriers which carry a component of the reagent, there are simultaneously taken off the amounts corresponding to the required amounts of the components, which are then dissolved to form the reagent solution. Apparatus for carrying out the process is also provided.

Process and apparatus for preparing multi-component reagent solutions

Novel method for the determination of .alpha.-amylase which method comprises contacting a sample suspected of containing .alpha.-amylase with a starch derivative carrying a substituent capable of dyestuff-forming coupling; separating from the resulting starch-containing phase the low molecular weight soluble fission products formed by splitting of said starch derivative by .alpha.-amylase; coupling the said couplable substituent with another dyestuff forming component; and measuring the dyestuff so formed as a measure of the initial .alpha.-amylase content.

Method for the determination of .alpha.-amylase

The invention relates to an improvement in a conventional method for the determination of uric acid involving uricase/catalase/aldehyde dehydrogenase, resulting in the formation of produced NAD(P)H as a measure of the initial uric acid present, which improvement comprises adding at least one compound selected from oxalates, malonic acid mono-lower alkyl esters, trihaloethanols, pyrazole, pyridine, substituted pyrazole and pyridine wherein the substituents are selected from lower alkyl and halogen, pyridine carboxylic acids, pyridine carboxylic acids substituted with a lower radical, pyridine carboxylic acid amides and pyridine carboxylic acid lower alkyl esters, thiourea, isobutyramide and chelate-forming complexing agents, in order to suppress disturbance-causing creep reactions in said method. Reagents containing such additive compounds are also provided.

Method and reagent for the determination of uric acid

Kinetic determination of enzyme substrates by means of coupled reactions comprising selecting the reaction parameters so that the most specific part reaction of a reaction sequence becomes rate-determining for the whole reaction sequence wherein the rate-determining part reaction follows first or pseudo-first order kinetics.

Process and reagent for the kinetic determination of enzyme substrates

Cholesterol is determined by incubating a sample suspected of containing cholesterol in an aqueous medium with cholesterol oxidase and determining either the oxygen consumption, the hydrogen peroxide formed, or cholestenone, as a measure of the initial cholesterol content; reagent compositions comprising cholesterol oxidase and a system for the determination of H.sub.2 O.sub.2 or for the determination of cholestenone are provided.

Reagent and method for the determination of cholesterol

Enzyme substrates in aqueous liquids are continuously measured by introducing a sample containing the substrate to be determined into a current of buffer solution, reacting the substrate on an immobilized enzyme and measuring, in a measurement chamber, a physical change in the solution brought about by the reaction, wherein a current of buffer solution containing the sample to be determined is passed alternatingly (i) directly through the measurement chamber with the production of a reference signal and (ii) first over the immobilized enzyme and thereafter through the measurement chamber with the production of a measurement signal, and relating the reference signal to the measurement signal to indicate the enzyme substrate initially present.

Method and apparatus for the continuous determination of the

Porous tablets are produced by mixing the tablet components with a liquid solvent which is inert towards the components of the tablet and which freezes at a temperature from about -30 to +25.degree. C, the solvent constituting about 5 to 80% by weight of the total mixture, introducing the mixture into an inert cooling medium at a temperature low enough to solidify the solvent, pressing the mixture including the solidified solvent into tablets at a temperature below the freezing point of the solvent, and then evaporating the solvent from the tablets. Advantageously the solvent is water, cyclohexane, benzene and/or tert.-butanol, optionally containing alcohol. The tablets readily disintegrate in liquid.

Production of porous tablets

Process for enzymatic analysis by the enzymatic reaction of a substance to be determined and measurement of the increase or decrease of a reaction component of the main reaction or subsequent reaction, comprising adding to a solution which contains dissolved therein the enzyme necessary for the reaction, a sample solution containing a substance to be determined, measuring a particular reaction component, and then circulating the enzyme solution through a reactor which completely removes the measured reaction component from the solution (or converts it to a non-disturbing product) and again mixing the enzyme solution, if necessary after replenishing the used up components, with a new sample solution.

Process for enzymatic analysis

An analytical process for enzymatic determination of a substrate in biological fluids. The fluid sample is reacted first in the absence of the specific kinase but in the presence of an NADH -- regenerating enzymatic system with the reagents needed for the reaction sequence; then the enzymes are separated from the reaction solution, and thereafter the necessary enzymes are added to the filtrate and NADH consumption is measured. The method is very accurate, economical in requiring less enzymes and only one measurement is necessary.

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Alexander Hagen