Abstract:
A medicine-holding body is disposed in a flow path of a nozzle portion of an adapter for blood dispensing. The medicine-holding body is formed of a plurality of fibers which is made of polyester and is bundled by aligning a longitudinal direction thereof in a flowing direction which is a direction in which blood flows. The medicine-holding body holds an anticoagulant for suppressing coagulation of blood, as a medicine to be mixed into blood. The surface area of the medicine-holding body is greater than or equal to 10 mm2 and less than 600 mm2. In a case where the surface area of the medicine-holding body is greater than or equal to 10 mm2, the concentration of the anticoagulant becomes greater than or equal to a lower limit value of 10 U/mL even under most severe conditions such as a dispensing speed of 500 μL/second. In a case where the surface area of the medicine-holding body is less than 600 mm2, it is possible to maintain the occurrence rate of hemolysis to be less than or equal to 10%.
Abstract:
There is provided an adapter for blood sample dispensing which enables change of the presence and absence of a medicine to be mixed in a blood sample or the type of the medicine thereof while suppressing contact of blood with the air, during preparation of an examination sample, and a dispensing kit and a needle kit provided therewith. Dispensing is performed using an adapter 1 for blood sample dispensing which is mounted on a distal portion of a syringe and has a piping structure, in which the adapter has a fitting portion 3 fitted to the distal portion at one end, a nozzle portion 2 at the other end, and a flange portion 4 on an outer circumference surface, and in which the adapter 1 has a medicine 5, to be mixed in the blood sample S, on the inside of the nozzle portion 2.
Abstract:
A laser beam is emitted onto fluorescent molecules within a solution to orient the fluorescent molecules. The direction in which the laser beam is emitted is switched to switch the transition moment direction of the fluorescent particles to be parallel or perpendicular to the vibrating direction of linearly polarized excitation light. Thereby, the fluorescent molecules of free molecules and binding molecules can be switched between an excited and a non excited state. There is a difference in the speeds at which the orientation directions change for molecules which have undergone and molecules which have not undergone antigen antibody reactions. Therefore, the fluorescence contributed by fluorescent molecules associated with free molecules and the fluorescence contributed by fluorescent molecules associated with binding molecules can be calculated respectively, to measure the concentration of a detection target substance with high sensitivity.
Abstract:
A pipette tip includes a body and projections. In the body, a flow passage in which liquid from the syringe flows and an ejection opening that ejects the liquid, which has flowed through the flow passage, to the outside are formed. The ejection opening is formed in a distal end portion. The projections are provided on the distal end portion and protrude from a region around the ejection opening in the ejection direction of liquid. The projections are partially disposed around the central axis of the body. Even in a case where a residual droplet adheres to the ejection opening, the residual droplet does not adhere to an injection opening of a sample container, because the projections guard a region around the residual droplet.
Abstract:
A centrifugal separation unit that performs centrifugal separation on a sample that has been injected into a container by rotating the container about a center axis of the container, as a rotation axis, a measurement unit that measures a sample component in the container that has been centrifugally separated by the centrifugal separation unit, and a correction unit that performs, on a result of the measurement, correction operation processing based on a change in concentration caused by evaporation of the sample during the centrifugal separation are provided.
Abstract:
A bio-molecule detecting device that enables a high-sensitivity measurement is provided. The orientation direction of third complexes included in blood plasma is switched by switching the vibration direction of an orientation control light. The orientation direction of the third complexes is switched between two directions in which the intensities of an electric field, which is generated between two gold nanoparticles included in the third complexes by surface plasmon resonance, are significantly different. Therefore, the intensity of fluorescence generated from the third complexes is significantly changed by the change in the orientation direction of the third complexes.
Abstract:
A configuration was adopted, in which the orientations of free molecules and binding molecules within a solution are switched by switching the vibration direction of orientation controlling light, thereby switching the amount of light emitted by each free molecule and each binding molecule. There is a difference in the amounts of time required for the orientations of the free molecules and the binding molecules to switch accompanying the switch in the emission direction of the orientation controlling light. Therefore, the timings at which the amounts of light emitted by each type of molecule increase differ. Accordingly, the fluorescence contributed by fluorescent molecules associated with free molecules and the fluorescent molecules associated with binding molecules can be respectively calculated, even if all of the fluorescent molecules within the solution emit fluorescence. Thereby, the concentration of a detection target substance can be accurately measured with a simple structure.
Abstract:
To provide a test substance measurement method and a test substance measurement kit adapted to improve the accuracy of the measurement of a test substance. A test substance measurement kit includes: fluorescent particles which are modified with a first binding substance having specific bindability to a test substance; non-fluorescent particles which are modified with a second binding substance having no specific bindability to the test substance; and a substrate on which a first metal film to which a third binding substance having specific bindability to the test substance is fixed, and a second metal film to which a fourth binding substance having no bindability to the test substance, but having bindability to the first binding substance is fixed, and which has a smaller thickness than the first metal film are formed.
Abstract:
In a coloration analysis device that analyzes a coloration state in a coloration region of a dry analysis element in which a coloration region is formed which reacts with a test substance in a specimen solution and is colored, the effects of irradiation intensity unevenness of measuring light or light-receiving position sensitivity unevenness of a light-receiving optical system are eliminated, and it is possible to perform accurate analysis. A coloration region of the dry analysis element 12 and reference measurement plates 110 and 111 are irradiated with measuring light by a photometric head 96, reflected light from a measurement object is two-dimensionally detected as an image, and correction processing is performed for each pixel of an image of the coloration region, using corresponding pixel information of images of a black reference measurement plate 110 and a white reference measurement plate 111.
Abstract:
In a container for centrifugal separation that includes a container main body including a retention part in which a sample is retained, and in which a component of the sample in the retention part is centrifugally separated by rotating the container main body about its center axis, as a rotation axis, material having thixotropic properties has been applied to an entire bottom surface of the retention part.