Chemical Research in Chinese Universities ›› 1987, Vol. 3 ›› Issue (2): 14-18.

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Homogeneous Voltammetric Immunossesay of Diphtheria Toxoid and Diphtheria Antitoxin

Hu Yinhua, Tie Feng, Li Qingman   

  1. Department of Chemistry, Northwest University, Xi'an
  • Received:1987-10-10 Online:1987-12-24 Published:2011-09-07

Abstract: Diphtheria toxoid was denatured in 0.1M NH4Cl-NH3H2O basal solution with pH 9.4,yielding a cathodic and an anodic polarographic peaks at -1.52 and -1.45V(vs.SCE),respectively.The cathodic and anodic peak heights varied linearly with diphtheria toxoid concentration over the range of 2.5 to 180μg/ml by single sweep polarography,and diphtheria toxoid even as low as 0.3μg/ml could be detected by differential pulse polarography.The decreased peak current value of diphtheria toxoid due to immunochemical binding reaction was proportional to diphtheria antitoxin in the range of 2.5×10-6 to 5×105 IU/ml,which determined diphtheria antitoxin level homogeneously.The assays are sensitive,specific,reproducible and simple in operation.The anodic peak was appl.ied to the determination of diphtheria toxoid in the triple vaccine.