Method of assay employing a magnetic electrode

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PATENT NO 4978610
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07076265

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In its broadest aspect, the present invention provides a method of effecting an electrochemical specific-binding assay of a ligand, either qualitatively or quantitatively, in an apparatus comprising at leasts one electrode, in which method a labelled component of the assay medium is, at least in part, magnetically held in the vicinity of the electrode. The electrochemical assay method may include a separation step, whereby bound label may be separated from free label in the assay medium. Preferably the electrochemical assay method will include the step of determining a perturbation in an electrochemical characteristic of components of the assay medium associated with a ligand complexing reaction. Such an assay method is applicable to, for example, antibodies and antigens and suitable labels include redox centers, enzyme labels in the presence of an electron-transfer mediator and electron-transfer mediator labels in the presence of an electron donor or acceptor.

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F HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE LTD4070 BASEL

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Forrest, Gordon C Braemore, High Park Avenue, East Horsley, Surrey KT24 5DP, GB2 8 1005
Hill, Hugh A O 9 Clover Close, Oxford, GB2 12 5763
Rattle, Simon J 52 Mabel Street, Woking, Surrey GU21, 1 NW, GB2 5 600
Robinson, Grenville A 23 Burnham Way, Ealing, London, W13 9YE, GB2 8 679

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