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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:
Apr. 08, 1997
Filed:
Apr. 20, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Oriental Yeast Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q / ; C12Q / ; C12Q / ; G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435 16 ; 435-4 ; 435 13 ; 435 15 ; 435110 ; 435183 ; 436 63 ; 436 74 ; 436 69 ; 530300 ; 530328 ;
Abstract
Calcium in a sample is brought into contact with a transglutaminase capable of being activated with calcium as an activating factor and the transglutaminase activity, which varies depending upon the calcium amount in the sample, is measured to thereby determine the calcium amount in the sample. By the method of the invention, accurate determination of calcium in various samples such as body fluids is possible without removal of proteins from them.