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==<font color="purple">Radioimmunoassay</font>== | ==<font color="purple">Radioimmunoassay</font>== | ||
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− | + | |q1=What are radioimmunoassays commonly used to detect? | |
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− | + | *Hormone levels in blood and tissue fluids | |
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− | * | + | |q2=What is the most common isotope used for radioimmunoassay? |
− | * | + | |a2=Iodine-125 |
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− | | | + | |q3=Why is it important to measure the amount of antibody that binds to 50% of the labelled antigen? |
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− | | | + | *Substances used are radioactive |
− | + | *Gamma radiation requires special counting equipment | |
− | + | *Iodine naturally accumulates in the thyroid gland | |
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==<font color="purple">Agglutination</font>== | ==<font color="purple">Agglutination</font>== | ||
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− | + | |q1=What are the antibodies that produce agglutination known as? | |
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Revision as of 17:10, 17 March 2012
ELISA testing
Question | Answer | Article | |
What does the acronym ELISA stand for? | Enzyme Linked ImmunoSorbent Assay
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What type of ELISA requires all the reagents to be added at once? | Homogenous
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Link to Article | |
What are the five basic steps of an ELISA test? |
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Link to Article |
Immunofluorescence
Question | Answer | Article | |
The adsorption of light by a molecule is known as what? | Excitation
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What are the fluorescent dyes commonly known as? | Fluorochromes
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Link to Article | |
What are the advantages of indirect staining? |
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What technique is used to provide a quantitative measure of immunofluorescence? | Flow cytometry
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Link to Article |
Radioimmunoassay
Question | Answer | Article | |
What are radioimmunoassays commonly used to detect? | Link to Article | ||
What is the most common isotope used for radioimmunoassay? | Iodine-125
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Link to Article | |
Why is it important to measure the amount of antibody that binds to 50% of the labelled antigen? | Ensures the number of epitopes present exceeds number of antibody-binding sites
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Link to Article | |
What are the disadvantages of the radioimmunoassay? |
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Link to Article |
Agglutination
Question | Answer | Article | |
What are the antibodies that produce agglutination known as? | Agglutinins
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Link to Article | |
What constitutes the end of the agglutination test? | The last tube showing distinct agglutination
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Link to Article | |
What does the titre represent? | The number of antibodies per unit volume of serum
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Link to Article | |
What is the prozone effect? | An inhibition of agglutination caused by an excess of antibodies
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Link to Article | |
What agglutination test is often used to test for rhesus disease? | Coombs test
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Link to Article |
Originally funded by the RVC Jim Bee Award 2007 |