Pipette tip and uses and methods thereof
Assigneeenicor GmbH
InventorJames Lynn Hill
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Abstract
The present invention provides a pipette tip, which can be used in in-vitro diagnostics, in particular in the diagnostic testing of body fluids, such as in coagulation testing. The Pipette tip contains two constituents in a spatially separated manner. The present invention furthermore provides a method of performing such diagnostics, e.g. coagulation analysis, and to the use of the pipette tip in such diagnostic testing.
Claims20
A pipette tip comprising a constituent (A) and a constituent (B) in a spatially separated manner, wherein the constituents (A) and (B) are adapted to form a diagnostic composition upon combination.
A method of performing a diagnostic test on a sample comprising the following steps:
- (1) providing a pipette tip according to 1;
- (2) aspirating the sample into the pipette tip, thereby mixing, preferably dissolving, the constituent (A), e.g. contained in compartment (a), and the constituent (B), e.g. contained in compartment (b), of said pipette tip in the sample and obtaining a mixture, preferably a solution, of the sample and constituents (A) and (B), wherein in said mixture constituents (A) and (B) form a diagnostic composition that is required to perform the diagnostic test on the sample;
- (3) optionally, transferring the mixture of the sample and the diagnostic composition into a measurement container suitable for performing said diagnostic test, such as a cuvette;
- (4) optionally, putting the measurement container, such as the cuvette, into an apparatus suitable for performing said diagnostic test;
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- (5) performing the diagnostic test of said mixture, optionally in the measurement container, such as the cuvette.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.