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ShadowEllipse t1_izomgh2 wrote

One technique used is immunoassay. We can use like an antibody or antigen that is highly selective in binding to the required hormone or peptide. This can be a radioactive isotope or a fluorescent one. We have particle counting technology which uses scattered laser light is used to count the particles present in a given area.

I don't really specialise in biochemistry since I'm just a medstudent so take it with a grain of salt because there might be a few errors.

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ScienceIsSexy420 t1_izooxs2 wrote

There's also spectrophotometry, LCMS, MALDI, ELISA, radioimmunoassay, and many other kind of immunoassays :)

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ShadowEllipse t1_izp26c7 wrote

Yeah. I only know like ELISA and radioimmunoassay from what you mentioned. I assume I know a bit more but I cant remember any of them.

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