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immunoassay
noun
A test for the presence of a substance using the reaction of an antibody to its antigen, making use of the high selectivity of components of biological immune systems.
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In a stroke of marketing genius, the company has put its test on the surface of a beermat.The test is an immunoassay.
Rather than using artificial testosterone-like substances that could be spotted using the immunoassay test, athletes had switched to using natural testosterone instead.
Raymond Brooks and others at St Thomas's Hospital in London developed the immunoassay test.
Another highly sensitive immunoassay is the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).
Treponemal tests include the Treponema pallidum hemagglutination assay (TPHA; or T. pallidum particle agglutination assay, TPPA); the enzyme immunoassay (EIA); and the fluorescent treponemal antibody absorption (FTA-ABS) test.
No one person can work up a patient's back pain, run the immunoassay, do the physical therapy, protocol the MRI, and direct the treatment of the unexpected cancer found growing in the spine.
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The other concerned a radio-immunoassay technique that can detect trace amounts of substances in the body and that is now used every day throughout the world.
Promising advances have been made on a number of diagnostic technologies, such as dipstick-type immunoassays and nucleic acid tests.
There are essentially three main testing methods in post-race sampling analysis: thin-layer chromatography (the cheapest and least effective), enzyme-linked immunoassays, otherwise known as Elisa kits (neither the most nor the least effective), and liquid or gas chromatography/mass spectronomy (the most expensive but the most sensitive and therefore most effective method).
But, he said, it "is well established in the area of clinical diagnosis immunoassays".
Dr. Sorensen said he and his colleagues were also "fairly far along" in learning how to calibrate pheromone densities from stream to stream with what he called "enzyme immunoassays".
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