Accelerator for agglutination reactions, reagent for biochemical assays, and biochemical assay method

The object of the present invention is to provide an accelerator for agglutination reactions that is suitable to use in biochemical agglutination determination systems (e.g., immune agglutination determination systems), shows a strong accelerative function to agglutination reactions, does not tend t...

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Main Authors MINAKAWA, KENJI, YAMAGISHI, YOSHIO, ARAKI, HAJIME, MIWA, AKINARI
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
French
German
Published 21.01.2004
Edition7
Subjects
CHEMISTRY
COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON
COMPOSITIONS OF MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS
INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
MEASURING
METALLURGY
ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS
PHYSICS
TESTING
THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP
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Summary:The object of the present invention is to provide an accelerator for agglutination reactions that is suitable to use in biochemical agglutination determination systems (e.g., immune agglutination determination systems), shows a strong accelerative function to agglutination reactions, does not tend to increase viscosities of its aqueous solutions, shows good reproducibility and precision in determination results, and can be readily handled. The object can be attained by using an accelerator consisting essentially of at least one member selected from the group consisting of alginic acid and alginates. The accelerator can be applied to reagents for biochemical assays (e.g., immunoassays), kits for biochemical assays, and biochemical assay methods. Further, the present invention provides use of at least one member selected from the group consisting of alginic acid and alginates as an accelerator for agglutination reactions.
Bibliography:Application Number: EP20030007314