Apparatus for electrophoresis
AssigneeC. Desaga GmbH Nachf. Erich Fecht
InventorOlof A. Y. Vesterberg
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Abstract
The invention concerns an electrophoretic process for the investigation, analysis, and/or production, especially immunoelectrophoretic, of chemical substances, in which the substances are transported in aqueous solution in a gel carrier medium. For inhibiting or stabilizing convective transport under the action of an electric field, the aqueous solution contains reagents which form precipitates with the substances to be determined quantitatively. Due to electrophoretic transport in the aqueous phase of the carrier medium these reagents result in the production of precipitation over a migration distance which is proportional to the amount of the substances being determined.
Claims7
In an apparatus for conducting an electrophoretic process for the investigation, analysis and/or production of chemical substances which apparatus comprises channels adapted to contain a gel carrier medium, the opposite ends of said channels being in contact with electrode vessels adapted to contain buffer solution, said vessels being connected to opposite poles of a direct current source, the improvement wherein the apparatus contains a support plate which has elongated, essentially parallel troughs, slots, grooves or the like constituting the said channels which are designed to hold strips of the said gel carrier medium and which channels are sealable by applying at least one plate-like, film-like or foil-like element to the corresponding flat side of the said support plate at its exposed longitudinal side, whereby, if desired, end regions at the top and bottom may be left exposed.
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