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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:
Jun. 25, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Manfred Schmolz, Reutlingen, DE;
Assignee:
EDI (Experimentelle & Diagnostische Immunologie) GmbH, Reutlingen, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 3/348 ; C12Q 1/00 ; C12Q 1/02 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 3/348 ; C12Q 1/00 ; C12Q 1/02 ;
Abstract
The invention relates to a method for the determination of the immune defence activity of blood by the stimulation of white cells in the whole blood, incubation of the whole blood, separation of the supernatant from the sediment and determination of the activity from the separated supernatant. he invention also relates to a test kit for performing the method and to the use of a suitable blood sampling system, particularly a syringe cylinder for this purpose.