title: A hirudin catching ELISA for quantitating the anticoagulant in biological fluids.
abstract: A catching ELISA has been developed that permits a quantitation of the anticoagulant hirudin in buffer, urine and plasma. In plasma hirudin can be determined in concentrations ranging from 0.2 to 25 ng/ml (2.4 X 10(-3) to 0.3 AT-U/ml), in urine between 0.8 and 200 ng/ml (0.01 and 2.4 AT-U/ml). The enzyme immunoassay allows a rapid, sensitive and reproducible quantitation of hirudin, and can thus be used to assess the pharmacokinetics of the anticoagulant in patients after parenteral and/or topic administration.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Mikrobiologie, Medizinische Fakultät der Universität Innsbruck, Austria.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Spinner
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Scheffauer
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Maschler
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Stöffler
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D006629:Hirudins / Q000032:analysis* / Q000097:blood / Q000652:urine; D011817:Rabbits; D012756:Sheep
chemical_list: D006629:Hirudins