CARTRIDGE FOR AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF ANALYTE IN BODY FLUID SAMPLE AND SYSTEM COMPRISING IT Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC G01N35/00 G01N33/48 G01N33/53 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: group of inventions refers to laboratory diagnostics. A device for the automatic detection of an analyte in a body fluid sample comprises an array of addressed analysis units for carrying out a chemical reaction, which generates a distinguishable signal carrying the information concerning the presence or absence of the analyte; an array of addressed reagent units referring to the individual addressed reagent unit, corresponding to the individual addressed analysis unit, and wherein the individual reagent unit is configured to be calibrated by a reference signal in the respective individual analysis unit before the arrays are assembled on the device; the individual analysis unit comprises a quantitative analysis tip having an inner surface carrying the reagents fixed on the surface for the analyte detection. The group of inventions refers to an embodiment of the above device additionally comprising a sampling unit, as well as to sub-systems comprising the above devices, methods for analysing using the above devices, a method for assembling the above devices and a method for sampling plasma from the blood sample in these systems.

EFFECT: group of inventions provides the higher flexibility and reliability of the system, as well as prevents cross-contamination of the units of the device.

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