Kit for the determination of L-carnitine in biological fluids and tissues

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Kit for the determination of L-carnitine in biological fluids and tissues
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Publication number: US6884599

Patent number: 6884599

Patent authority: US

Kind: B2 - Utility Patent Grant (with pre-grant publication)

Title: Kit for the determination of L-carnitine in biological fluids and tissues

Inventors: Pace, Silvia (IT)

Assignee: Sigma-Tau Industrie Farmaceutiche Riunite S.p.A.

Primary examiner: Witz, Jean C.

Attorney, Agent or Firm: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.

Assistant examiner: Hanley, Susan

Publication date: 04/26/2005

Publication year: 2005

Application number: 240711

Unstandardized application number: 10240711

Filing date: 03/30/2001

Abstract: A kit for the determination of L-carnitine or short-chain acyl L-carnitines consisting of only two vials complete with all the necessary reactants, with the exception of standards, preferably the kit contains the reactants in lyophilized form.

Field of search: 435/15 - 435/975 - 435/193 - 436/815 - 424/94.5

Document type: US Grant

Priority information: IT RM2000A000195 04/13/2000

IPC Code: C12Q1/48 SECTION C CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
BIOCHEMISTRY; BEER; SPIRITS; WINE; VINEGAR; MICROBIOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING
MEASURING OR TESTING PROCESSES INVOLVING ENZYMES OR MICRO-ORGANISMS immunoassay ; COMPOSITIONS OR TEST PAPERS THEREFOR; PROCESSES OF PREPARING SUCH COMPOSITIONS; CONDITION-RESPONSIVE CONTROL IN MICROBIOLOGICAL OR ENZYMOLOGICAL PROCESSES 3
Measuring or testing processes involving enzymes or micro-organisms measuring or testing apparatus with condition measuring or sensing means, e.g. colony counters, ; Compositions therefor; Processes of preparing such compositions 3
involving transferase 3

C12N9/15 No data available

G01N33/53 SECTION G PHYSICS
MEASURING counting ; TESTING
INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES separating components of materials in general , , , ; apparatus fully provided for in a single other subclass, see the relevant subclass, e.g. ; measuring or testing processes other than immunoassay, involving enzymes or micro-organisms , ; investigation of foundation soil in situ ; monitoring or diagnostic devices for exhaust-gas treatment apparatus ; sensing humidity changes for compensating measurements of other variables or for compensating readings of instruments for variations in humidity, see or the relevant subclass for the variable measured; testing or determining the properties of structures ; measuring or investigating electric or magnetic properties of materials ; systems in general for determining distance, velocity or presence by use of propagation effects, e.g. Doppler effect, propagation time, of reflected or reradiated radio waves, analogous arrangements using other waves ; determining sensitivity, graininess, or density of photographic materials ; testing component parts of nuclear reactors
Investigating or analysing materials by specific methods not covered by the preceding groups
Biological material, e.g. blood, urine , , , take precedence; determining the germinating capacity of seeds ; Haemocytometers counting blood corpuscules distributed over a surface by scanning the surface 3,4
Immunoassay; Biospecific binding assay; Materials therefor medicinal preparations containing antigens or antibodies ; haptens in general, see the relevant places in class ; peptides, e.g. proteins, in general 4

US Classification: 436/815 CHEMISTRY: ANALYTICAL AND IMMUNOLOGICAL TESTING
TEST FOR NAMED COMPOUND OR CLASS OF COMPOUNDS

435/975 CHEMISTRY: MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND MICROBIOLOGY
KIT

435/15 CHEMISTRY: MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND MICROBIOLOGY
MEASURING OR TESTING PROCESS INVOLVING ENZYMES OR MICRO-ORGANISMS; COMPOSITION OR TEST STRIP THEREFORE; PROCESSES OF FORMING SUCH COMPOSITION OR TEST STRIP
Involving transferase

435/193 CHEMISTRY: MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND MICROBIOLOGY
ENZYME (E.G., LIGASES (6. ), ETC.), PROENZYME; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; PROCESS FOR PREPARING, ACTIVATING, INHIBITING, SEPARATING, OR PURIFYING ENZYMES
Transferase other than ribonuclease (2.)

Database: US Patents

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