Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology – Measuring or testing process involving enzymes or... – Involving antigen-antibody binding – specific binding protein...
Patent
1994-09-20
1997-01-14
Knode, Marian C.
Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology
Measuring or testing process involving enzymes or...
Involving antigen-antibody binding, specific binding protein...
435 792, 435962, 435967, 435975, 436174, 436175, 436177, 436178, G01N 3353, G01N 100, G01N 118
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ABSTRACT:
Method for accurately measuring thymopoietin (TP) in human serum or plasma by dissociating TP from protein complexes, releasing bound TP in a unbound form, extracting TP, preparing it for assay, and measuring TP levels in a suitable assay.
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Culler Michael D.
Goldstein Gideon
Duffy Patricia A.
Goldstein Gideon
Knode Marian C.
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