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OwnerAkinari Miwa, Hajime Araki +2inventors
InventorsAkinari Miwa, Hajime Araki, Yoshio Yamagishi, Kenji Minakawa
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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.
An accelerator for agglutination reactions consisting essentially of at least one member selected from the group consisting of alginic acid and alginates.
A reagent for biochemical assays comprising at least one member selected from the group consisting of alginic acid and alginates.
A biochemical assay method comprising a step of bringing a compound that can specifically bond to a target to be detected into contact with a specimen that may contain the target in the presence of at least one member selected from the group consisting of alginic acid and alginates and a step of determining the amount of agglutinations that have been made by the specific reaction between the compound and the target.
Use of at least one member selected from the group consisting of alginic acid and alginates as an accelerator for agglutination reactions.
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