Europium labelled time-resolved fluoroimmunoassay for urine albumin.
1993
J A Nisbet, and
E Hutchinson, and
J Mazurkiewicz
Department of Clinical Biochemistry, St George's Hospital, London, UK.
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MeSH Term
Description
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D005063
Europium
An element of the rare earth family of metals. It has the atomic symbol Eu, atomic number 63, and atomic weight 152. Europium is used in the form of its salts as coatings for cathode ray tubes and in the form of its organic derivatives as shift reagents in NMR spectroscopy.
D006801
Humans
Members of the species Homo sapiens.
Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000419
Albuminuria
The presence of albumin in the urine, an indicator of KIDNEY DISEASES.
Albuminurias
D012680
Sensitivity and Specificity
Binary classification measures to assess test results. Sensitivity or recall rate is the proportion of true positives. Specificity is the probability of correctly determining the absence of a condition. (From Last, Dictionary of Epidemiology, 2d ed)
Specificity,Sensitivity,Specificity and Sensitivity
D015200
Fluoroimmunoassay
The use of fluorescence spectrometry to obtain quantitative results for the FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE. One advantage over the other methods (e.g., radioimmunoassay) is its extreme sensitivity, with a detection limit on the order of tenths of microgram/liter.