Sekisui Medical Co., Ltd.

Tomo Shimizu

Mitsuaki Yamamoto

Mayumi Yoshida

Shinya Yokokawa

Keigo Kono

Yasushi Nakamura

Hiroshi Takahashi

Shinya Nakayama

Yuki Takahashi

Osamu Miyazaki

Toru Suzuki

Shinichiro Kitahara

Junichi Kondou

A problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide an immunochromatographic test strip and a detection method using immunochromatography avoiding aggregation of colloidal gold conjugates while red blood cells in whole blood are agglutinated and then separated and removed in the case of using polybrene as a blood-agglutinating agent and the colloidal gold conjugates as a detection reagent. To solve the problem, the present inventers reviewed a past reagent configuration itself from a completely different viewpoint rather than selecting type and amount of polyanions and, as a result of extensive study on each element, the inventers surprisingly found that aggregation of colloidal gold can be suppressed by using a certain buffer solution without using neutralization by polyanions.

Immunochromatographic test strip and detection method using immunochromatography for detecting object in red blood cell-containing sample

A problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide an immunochromatographic test strip and a detection method using immunochromatography avoiding aggregation of colloidal gold conjugates while red blood cells in whole blood are agglutinated and then separated and removed in the case of using polybrene as a blood-agglutinating agent and the colloidal gold conjugates as a detection reagent. To solve the problem, the present inventors reviewed a past reagent configuration itself from a completely different viewpoint rather than selecting type and amount of polyanions and, as a result of extensive study on each element, the inventors surprisingly found that aggregation of colloidal gold can be suppressed by using a certain buffer solution without using neutralization by polyanions.

Immunochromatographic test strip and detection method using immunochromatography for detecting target in red blood cell-containing sample

Provided is a method for the simple and highly accurate assay of PSA by a one-step reaction that does not use carriers having different average grain sizes. Also provided is a reagent therefor. The PSA assay method comprises sensitizing insoluble carriers having the same average grain size within a range of greater than 0.20 &#x3bc;m but 0.40 &#x3bc;m or less using two types of anti-PSA monoclonal antibodies having different epitopes that are anti-PSA monoclonal antibodies that will react with both free PSA and PSA-ACT, which is a complex of free PSA and &#x3b1;1-antichymotrypsin, and bringing the carriers into contact with a sample in the presence of an aggregation promoter.

PSA assay and reagent therefor

The present invention provides an insulin-specific assay and an assay reagent capable of sensitively and specifically assaying insulin using an antibody having a property of reacting with insulin bound to an anti-insulin antibody while not reacting with insulin not bound to an anti-insulin antibody, without being affected by proinsulin and insulin analogs.

Insulin assay

Provided is a method and reagent for measuring cystatin C in a human body fluid, by contacting a human body fluid with (a) first insoluble carrier particles coated with a first anti-human cystatin C monoclonal antibody and (b) second insoluble carrier particles coated with a second anti-human cystatin C monoclonal antibody, where the first anti-human cystatin C monoclonal antibody has an affinity for cystatin C that is higher than the second anti-human cystatin C monoclonal antibody, the second anti-human cystatin C monoclonal antibody recognizes an epitope of cystatin C that is different from the epitope recognized by the first anti-human cystatin C monoclonal antibody, and the first and second insoluble carrier particles are coated with from 1% to less than 4% by weight of the anti-human cystatin C monoclonal antibodies.

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Tokyo, Japan

Tomo Shimizu