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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 1987
Filed:
Mar. 01, 1985
Applicant:
Inventor:
Bradley W Arbogast, Johnson City, TN (US);
Assignee:
East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q / ; C12Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435 11 ; 435-4 ; 435 29 ; 435 32 ; 436 63 ; 436 71 ;
Abstract
A process for the determination of the toxicity preventing activity (TPA) of human blood serum, i.e., the effectiveness of the serum in preventing or inhibiting the destructive effect of very low density lipoproteins (VLDL) on test cells, and the use of this TPA value for classifying the serum as to atherosclerosis risk or potential. The process comprises: