Abstract:
The surface plasmon-enhanced fluorescence measurement device has: a light source that irradiates the diffraction grating with a linearly polarized excitation light; a rotating part that changes the direction of the optical axis of the excitation light with respect to the diffraction grating when seen in plan view, or changes the polarization direction of the excitation light with respect to the diffraction grating; a polarizer that extracts linearly polarized light from the fluorescence emitted from the fluorescent substance; and a light detection unit that detects the linearly polarized light extracted by the polarizer.
Abstract:
Provided is an assay method utilizing surface plasmon-field enhanced fluorescence spectroscopy, which suppresses fluctuations in an absolute value of a background signal that is referred to as a resonance angle or an optical blank by improving the effect when a whole blood sample is used, specifically, the effect by the blood cell components remaining in a measurement liquid during a SPFS measurement, with regards to a photometric condition setting step, which is a characteristic step in assay methods utilizing SPFS. The above-mentioned problem is solved by an assay method utilizing surface plasmon-field enhanced fluorescence spectroscopy, including a primary reaction step of a sample, a first washing step, a labeling reaction step, and a measurement step, wherein the method includes a step for evaluating a blood cell component quantity between the primary reaction step and the labeling reaction step.
Abstract:
A first frame having a first through-hole is arranged on a support so that one opening of the first through-hole is closed. A liquid containing a capturer is fed into the first through-hole, and a capturer is immobilized on the support exposed in the first through-hole. After removing the liquid from the support, a second frame having the second through-hole is arranged on the support in the first through-hole so that one opening of the second through-hole is closed.
Abstract:
The detection chip according to the present invention has an accommodating part, a metal film, a first reaction field, and a second reaction field. The accommodating part accommodates a liquid. The metal film is arranged in a bottom part of the accommodating part so that one face thereof faces into the accommodating part. The first reaction field and the second reaction field are arranged in mutually different regions on one face of the metal film. A capture body is immobilized in the first reaction field and the second reaction field. When the liquid is accommodated in the accommodating part, the depth of the liquid on the first reaction field differs from the depth of the liquid on the second reaction field.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a sandwich assay for quantifying a glycoprotein, which is a substance to be detected, in a sample using a labeled lectin, wherein the effect attributed to a contaminant, namely noise on the quantified value of the substance to be detected, is suppressed by introduction of a simple treatment. The sandwich assay includes a treatment for inhibiting the binding of the labeled lectin to a sugar chain carried by the contaminant non-specifically adsorbed to the measurement region, which contaminant is contained in the sample and which sugar chain is the same as that of the substance to be detected. When the contaminant is a glycoprotein having the same sugar chain as the substance to be detected, the treatment for inhibiting the binding of the laveled lectin to the sugar chain is preferably a treatment of adding a substance showing an action of cleaving disulfide bonds of the contaminant to the sample and thereby dissociating, from the contaminant, a domain containing the same sugar chain as that of the substance to be detected.
Abstract:
It is an object to provide a surface plasmon-field enhanced fluorescence measurement device capable of accurately detecting a specific substance even in the case in which a well member is used and achieving a simpler structure and a lower manufacturing cost, and a fluorescence detection method using the surface plasmon-field enhanced fluorescence measurement device. [Solution of Problem] A surface plasmon-field enhanced fluorescence measurement device is provided with: a sensor structure that is configured from a sensor member that is provided with a dielectric member, a metallic thin film formed on the dielectric member, and a ligand immobilized region formed on the metallic thin film, and a well member affixed onto the sensor member and having a through hole at a position that is corresponded to the ligand immobilized region; and a device body that is provided with at least a light source for applying excitation light to the metallic thin film of the sensor structure, and a light detection means for exciting a fluorescent substance held in the ligand immobilized region on the metallic thin film by applying the excitation light to the metallic thin film from the light source to enhance an electric field on the metallic thin film, and detecting fluorescence that has been excited, and the sensor structure is configured so as to be used attachably to and detachably from the device body or so as to be used while being affixed to the device body. The application position of the excitation light is set in such a manner that the center of the optical axis of the excitation light is located at a position a predetermined distance away from the position of the center of gravity of a bottom surface region that is defined by the through hole of the well member of the sensor structure.