| AcroPrep™ 96 Filter Plates Reduce the Presence of False Positive Results in Serological Based Immunoassays with Luminex® xMAP® Technology |
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Presentation: P03019 Session: Robotic Screening & Automation Technologies - Poster SessionEmily Berlin, Harold Baker (Luminex Corporation) and Sonya Lowrance (Luminex Corporation), Pall Life Sciences Presenting Author: Emily Berlin, Pall Life Sciences - USA Immunoassays are one of the most versatile, robust and widely used diagnostic tools in the marketplace today. Serological and endocrine-based immunoassays are routinely used in the clinical laboratory. Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH) assays are recognized as one of the most sensitive indicators of thyroid function and are used as a primary screening tool in the diagnosis of thyroid disease. Serological immunoassays are also used in the diagnosis of thyroid disease and false positives with the serological immunoassays can contribute to the misdiagnosis of thyroid function and disease. This study shows that the AcroPrep 96 Filter Plates with 1.2 µm Supor™ membrane from Pall Life Sciences show a significant reduction in the presence of false-positives compared to competitive filter plates when used with the Luminex xMAP technology for serological immunoassays and that the endocrine-based assays also perform consistently with the Pall filter plates. |