Range of immunotyping, high resolution and carbohydrate deficient transferrin capabilities will be shown for the first time in the UK
Analytical Technologies will be showing, for the first time, the new range of immunotyping, high resolution (HR) and carbohydrate deficient transferrin (CDT) capabilities for the Sebia Capillarys at Capa, being held at the University of York in September 2004. Capillarys provides high throughput, precise and accurate separation of proteins by capillary electrophoresis.
With the new immunotyping facility available, which provides automatic typing of paraproteins, Capillarys brings the benefit of full automation to ease the workload of busy laboratories.
The ability to run multiple tasks on one platform allows skilled technicians more time for other tasks and improves the overall efficiency of the laboratory.
The new HR Capillarys kit separates the main serum proteins into further fractions allowing the quantification of four main serum proteins albumin, alpha 1 acid glycoprotein, alpha 1 antitrypsin, and haptoglobulin.
CDT is an indicator of alcohol consumption over the long term.
Abusive and repeated alcohol consumption modifies the proportion of the different transferrin isoforms present in the blood and these can be clearly identified using Capillarys.
This completely automated, high throughput method is much better suited to routine analysis than the current methods using immunochemical determination following anion-exchange chromatography.
Hydrasys with its autosampler and powerful Phoresis software will also be on show at Capa together with the new CSF isoelectric focusing method recently introduced.
All Sebia electrophoresis equipment is available in the UK exclusively from Analytical Technologies.
