摘要:
This invention provides a method for measuring the concentration of urinary trypsin inhibitors which is excellent in precision and reproducibility, whose operation is simple, and in which a possibility of damaging a plastic cell is eliminated. The method for measuring the concentration of urinary trypsin inhibitors comprises mixing an urine sample, a protease solution containing trypsin, and a buffer solution, adding a substrate solution to the mixture to cause the enzyme reaction, and measuring the activity of the enzyme, wherein the buffer solution is prepared so that it contains at least 0.15 .mu.mol calcium per 1 .mu.g of the trypsin but no more than 100 .mu.mol calcium per 1 ml of the urine sample in the reaction mixture, and wherein the substrate solution is prepared by dissolving the substrate in an organic solvent and diluting the mixture solution with aqueous medium, wherein at least one of an amphoteric surfactant and a nonionic surfactant is added to at least one of the organic solvent and the aqueous medium.
摘要:
Provided is a prozone phenomenon detecting method, by which generation of a prozone phenomenon can be detected even when a conventional specimen analysis tool is used, and examinations using an immunochromatography method and the like can be performed efficiently.
摘要:
Provided is a prozone phenomenon detecting method, by which generation of a prozone phenomenon can be detected even when a conventional specimen analysis tool is used, and examinations using an immunochromatography method and the like can be performed efficiently. In the method, a specimen analysis tool containing substances that specifically bind to a target component contained in a sample is used. The specimen analysis tool is obtained by arranging a sample supplying portion, a reagent portion, and a detection portion on the porous base material from upstream to downstream in a sample moving direction in this order. The reagent portion contains a labeled substance that specifically binds to the target component. The detection portion contains an immobilized substance that specifically binds to the target component. The target component is detected by detecting a complex of the target component, the labeled substance, and the immobilized substance through detection of a label of the labeled substance in the detection portion. The method includes at least one of the following processes A and B: the process A: a process in which detection results obtained in the detection portion are plotted along the sample moving direction, and generation of a prozone phenomenon is detected on the basis of a position of a peak in plots thus obtained; and the process B: a process in which the label is detected at two or more different time points in the detection portion, and generation of a prozone phenomenon is detected on the basis of a magnitude relationship between two or more detection results thus obtained.
摘要:
The present invention provides an immunoassay analyzer capable of discriminating between normal coloring due to a specific immunoreaction and abnormal coloring due to a cause other than the specific immunoreaction in a measurement region of a sample analysis tool. An immunoassay analyzer 1 of the present invention includes an optical detection unit 4 and a determination unit 5. The optical detection unit 4 includes an optical signal measurement unit for measuring an optical signal at each of two or more different wavelengths including a main wavelength for detecting color change due to the specific immunoreaction and a sub-wavelength(s) other than the main wavelength. The determination unit 5 includes a discrimination unit for comparing the respective optical signals at the two or more different wavelengths and discriminating between the color change due to the specific immunoreaction and color change due to a cause other than the specific immunoreaction based on a comparison criterion determined previously.
摘要:
The present invention provides a method of pretreating a specimen, which allows measurement according to an immunoassay to be carried out on a specimen from nasal secretion while preventing non-specific reactions. According to this method, the specimen from nasal secretion is treated with a protease beforehand and then an immunoassay is performed. As the protease, it is preferable to use semi-alkaline protease (EC 3.4.21.63). Furthermore, it is preferable that a substance to be pretreated by the pretreatment method according to the present invention is an influenza virus contained in the specimen from nasal secretion. The immunoassay preferably is an immunoagglutination assay. Examples of the immunoagglutination assay include a turbidimetric immunoassay, a latex turbidimetric immunoassay, and a latex agglutination assay that is performed on a slide glass.
摘要:
An object is to provide an optical measurement apparatus for performing an efficient test by optical measurement without incurring incorrect measurements.To this end, the measurement apparatus utilizes a test instrument mounted thereto and including a carrier with a reagent retaining portion for application of a sample. The measurement apparatus includes a reader for color development at the reagent retaining portion, and a controller for driving control of the reader and for required determination. The controller performs the determination by utilizing the data obtained by reading the color development of the reagent after a reaction completion period Tr1-Tr6 depending on the reagent and starting from the mounting of the test instrument. When detecting that the color development at the reagent retaining portion is completed before the lapse of the reaction completion period Tr1-Tr6 after the mounting of the test instrument, the controller stops the test for the test instrument.
摘要:
An object is to provide an optical measurement apparatus for performing an efficient test by optical measurement without incurring incorrect measurements.To this end, the measurement apparatus utilizes a test instrument mounted thereto and including a carrier with a reagent retaining portion for application of a sample. The measurement apparatus includes a reader for color development at the reagent retaining portion, and a controller for driving control of the reader and for required determination. The controller performs the determination by utilizing the data obtained by reading the color development of the reagent after a reaction completion period Tr1-Tr6 depending on the reagent and starting from the mounting of the test instrument. When detecting that the color development at the reagent retaining portion is completed before the lapse of the reaction completion period Tr1-Tr6 after the mounting of the test instrument, the controller stops the test for the test instrument.
摘要:
The present invention provides a method by which UTI concentration can be measured easily with high precision and good reproducibility. The measurement is performed by adding free anti-UTI antibodies to a sample and measuring the degree of the resulting agglutination, for example, from the change in absorbance. As shown in FIG. 3, the UTI concentration and the degree of the agglutination (i.e. the change in absorbance) are correlated. The absorbance can be measured by using a general spectrophotometer, preferably at a wavelength of 300 to 400 nm. Polyethylene glycol is preferably added to the reaction solution as an agglutination accelerator. The polyethylene glycol preferably has an average molecular weight of 2,000 to 20,000, and the concentration of polyethylene glycol in the reaction solution is preferably in the range of 2 to 10 weight %.
摘要:
The present invention provides an immunoassay analyzer capable of discriminating between normal coloring due to a specific immunoreaction and abnormal coloring due to a cause other than the specific immunoreaction in a measurement region of a sample analysis tool. An immunoassay analyzer 1 of the present invention includes an optical detection unit 4 and a determination unit 5. The optical detection unit 4 includes an optical signal measurement unit for measuring an optical signal at each of two or more different wavelengths including a main wavelength for detecting color change due to the specific immunoreaction and a sub-wavelength(s) other than the main wavelength. The determination unit 5 includes a discrimination unit for comparing the respective optical signals at the two or more different wavelengths and discriminating between the color change due to the specific immunoreaction and color change due to a cause other than the specific immunoreaction based on a comparison criterion determined previously.
摘要:
In an immunoassay method using an antibody sensitization particle, the occurrence of false positives is prevented. The immunoassay method of the present invention is an immunoassay method for detecting or quantifying an analyte in a specimen by mixing an antibody sensitization particle obtained by sensitizing a particle with an antibody that reacts with the analyte in the specimen with the specimen, and measuring agglutination of the antibody sensitization particle by an antigen-antibody reaction, and the method includes pre-treating the specimen by using a cation exchange material in advance of the mixing step. As the cation exchange material, for example, a cation exchange material having a sulfonic acid group or a carboxyl group as a functional group can be used, and a form thereof is not limited particularly, and may be, for example, a cation exchange filter, a cation exchange column or the like.