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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:
May. 26, 1992
Filed:
Jul. 20, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Fredric H Crowther, Chadds Ford, PA (US);
Wai T Law, Sewell, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Em Diagnostic Systems, Incorporated, Gibbstown, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q / ; C12Q / ; C12Q / ; C12Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435 14 ; 435 17 ; 435 12 ; 435 25 ; 435 26 ; 436-8 ; 436-9 ; 436 18 ; 436 19 ;
Abstract
A stabilizer for maintaining a constant level of CO.sub.2 in coenzyme containing enzymatic CO.sub.2 diagnostic reagents is disclosed, comprising rate-limiting amounts of (a) the diagnostic reagents and (b) coenzyme-regenerating reagents, e.g., wherein (a) is malate dehydrogenase, phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase and NADH, and (b) is glucose dehydrogenase and glucose, as are methods of use and kits containing a diagnostic reagent and stabilizer.