Boehringer Mannheim Gmbh

Brigitte Draeger

Joachim Ziegenhorn

Wolfgang Gruber

Hans-Georg Batz

Winfried Albert

Josef Maier

Gunter Weimann

Alexander Hagen

August W Wahlefeld

Manfred Gloger

Martina Junius

Eberhard Munz

Jurgen Rasch

The present invention provides a process for determining the binding capacity of thyroxin-binding globulin (TBG) according to the principle of heterogeneous enzyme immunoassay, wherein the serum sample to be investigated is incubated with enzyme-labelled T.sub.4 or T.sub.3 and immobilized antibody against TBG or T.sub.4, the phase are separated and the labelling enzyme is measured in one of the phases.

Process for determining the binding capacity of thyroxin-binding globulin

Method of direct determination of beta-lipoproteins in a blood sample containing pre-beta-lipoprotein, (VLDL) alpha-lipoprotein (HDL), and beta-lipoprotein (LDL), comprising mixing the blood plasma or serum of the blood sample with a solid, water-insoluble anion exchanger operable to retain the pre-beta-lipoprotein (VLDL) and the alpha-lipoprotein (HDL) to remove them from solution, separating the blood plasma or serum from the anion exchanger and thereafter determining the amount of beta-lipoprotein (LDL) remaining in solution.

Method for the direct determination of the lipid content of blood

A reagent and improved process for the determination of D-glucose in body fluids by reaction with ATP in the presence of hexokinase, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, NADP, Mg.sup.++ ions and buffer and measurement of the NADPH formed. The improved process requires, before reaction with ATP, the mixing of the whole blood with a reagent which is composed of 0.01 to 0.5% weight/volume of an alkyl sulphate or sulphonate or of an alkyl-aryl sulphonate wherein the alkyl moiety is C.sub.8 to C.sub.32 and optionally contains one or more hydroxylalkylamino radicals as substituents and/or is interrupted by one or more ether oxygen atoms and the alkyl-aryl radicals having C.sub.8 to C.sub.18 alkyls and optionally a preserving agent.

Process and reagent for the determination of blood glucose in haemolysed

The present invention provides a reagent for the precipitation of apo-B-containing lipoproteins, wherein it comprises 0.2 to 3 grams per liter of phosphotungstic acid and more than 2 mmols per liter of magnesium ions in aqueous solution. The present invention also provides a process for the preparation of this reagent and a process for the precipitation of apo-B-containing lipoproteins using this reagent.

Reagent for the precipitation of apo-B-containing lipoproteins

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

An agent for the elimination of turbidity in serum, especially in serum samples wherein photometric measurements are to be made, consisting essentially of one or more mono- or di-esters of polyethylene glycol and fatty acids of 9 to 14 carbon atoms with at most 8 ethylene oxide units per fatty acid moiety in the molecule, said esters having an HLB value of from 8 to 12.8.

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