Boehringer Mannheim Gmbh

Klaus P Kaspar

Manfred Baier

Werner Stock

Siegfried Notzel

Rainer Schafer

Peter Kirch

Ulrich Trager

The present invention provides a process for the determination of a bindable analyte according to the principle of heterogeneous immunoassay by incubation of a sample solution which contains the analyte with a labelled first receptor specifically bindable with the analyte and present in dissolved phase and a second receptor present in a solid phase which does not cross-react with the first receptor and can fix a complex which contains the analyte and first receptor, separation of the phases after incubation and quantitative measurement of the labelling bound to the solid phase, wherein there is determined the back dissociation velocity of the labelling bound to the solid phase into the dissolved phase and the quotients of the back dissociation velocity and measurement value are used as a measure for the correctness of the test result of the first measurement.

Process for the determination of an immunologically bindable analyte

The present invention provides a process for the quantitative determination of a polyvalent antigen by incubation with three different receptors of which the first (R1) and the third (R3) are present in liquid phase and are bindable with the antigen, the second receptor (R2) is present in solid phase and is bindable with receptor (R1), and receptor (R3) carries a label and does not cross-react with (R1) and (R2), separation of the solid phase from the liquid phase and measurement of the label in one of the phases, wherein a first receptor (R1) is used which consists of at least two antibody molecules or antibody molecule fragments bound with one another, at least one of which binds specifically with the antigen to be determined. The present invention also provides a reagent for the quantitative determination of a polyvalent antigen containing three receptors (R1, R2 and R3) of which (R1) and (R3) are soluble and bindable with the antigen, (R3) is labelled and does not cross-react with (R1) and (R2), wherein (R1) consists of at least two antibody molecules or antibody molecule fragments bound with one another, at least one of which binds specifically with the antigen to be determined.

Immunochemical process and reagent for the determination of a polyvalent

For the determination of a reaction partner of an immunological reaction according to the principle of immunoassay, the reaction partner to be determined is brought into contact with a marked specific receptor R.sub.1 and at least 1 unmarked receptor R.sub.2, one of the unmarked receptors R.sub.2 being bonded on a solid phase by a binding-capable substance R.sub.3. In order to determine the sample blank value, the unmarked receptor R.sub.2, which is bonded by the receptor fixed on the solid phase, is then replaced by another unmarked receptor R'.sub.2 which does not react with the reaction partner of R.sub.2 to be determined.

Process and reagent for the determination of a reaction partner of an

The present invention provides a process for the preparation of a reagent paper for immunological analysis, wherein a fiber fleece of a cellulose/synthetic fiber mixture, in which the weight ratio of cellulose/synthetic fiber is 1 to 90/99 to 10, is activated by treatment with periodate, the so activated fiber fleece is loaded with an acid-treated protein and non-bound protein is removed. The present invention also provides a reagent paper for immunological analysis, wherein it comprises a fiber fleece of a cellulose/synthetic fiber mixture, in which the weight ratio of cellulose/synthetic fiber is from 1 to 90/99 to 10. Furthermore, the present invention is concerned with the use of a fiber fleece of a cellulose/synthetic fiber mixture, wherein the weight ratio of cellulose/synthetic fiber is 90 to 1/10 to 99, as reagent carrier for heterogeneous immunological analysis.

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Klaus P Kaspar