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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:
Mar. 19, 1991
Filed:
Oct. 04, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Boehringer Mannheim GmbH, Mannheim, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ; G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
436 86 ; 436 69 ; 435 13 ; 422 61 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides a process for the photometric determination of protein C and/or protein S activity, especially in plasma, wherein the sample containing the protein C and/or protein S to be determined is incubated with a protein C activator from snake venom with the formation of activated protein C and/or protein S and the decrease of the formation of thrombin from prothrombin brought about by the coagulation factors and the activators thereof is determined by means of a chromogenic thrombin substrate.