TEST SYSTEM FOR HUMAN INTERFERON ACTIVITY TESTING Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC G01N33/50 C12N5/71 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: group of inventions refers to medicine, namely to immunology, and can be used in laboratory diagnostics, as a test system and a method for measuring interferon alpha (IFN-α) antiviral activity in human blood serum. The test system for measuring IFN-α activity in the human blood serum comprises diploid cells, a virus-containing fluid and standard human interferon-α (IFN-α). As the diploid cells, the test system comprises cells of the characterised line of the diploid cells - human M-20 fibroblasts at 20-33 passages cultured in the medium with added 10% fibrinolytically active plasma (FAP). As the virus, the system contains the A vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) adapted to M-20 cells, the Indiana strain; the test system additionally contains a viral dye based on two fluorochromes - acriflavine and rhodamine C. The group of inventions also involves a method for measuring IFN-α activity in the human blood serum with the use of the developed system.

EFFECT: using the given inventions enables the quantitative good-reproducible measurement of IFN-α activity in the examined blood serum sampled by the luminescent microscopy of the vital preparations coloured in a fluorochrome-based vital dye.

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