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Assay Classifications: Preparation For Third Class

This document provides background information on assay classifications and preparations for a third class. It defines an assay as an analytical procedure used in laboratories to qualitatively or quantitatively measure the presence, amount, or functional activity of a target entity, such as a drug, biochemical substance, or cell. The entity being measured is called the analyte or measurand. Assays generally measure an intensive property of the analyte, expressing it using relevant units like molarity or enzyme activity levels, in order to assess or measure the analyte qualitatively or quantitatively.

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Assay Classifications: Preparation For Third Class

This document provides background information on assay classifications and preparations for a third class. It defines an assay as an analytical procedure used in laboratories to qualitatively or quantitatively measure the presence, amount, or functional activity of a target entity, such as a drug, biochemical substance, or cell. The entity being measured is called the analyte or measurand. Assays generally measure an intensive property of the analyte, expressing it using relevant units like molarity or enzyme activity levels, in order to assess or measure the analyte qualitatively or quantitatively.

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Assay Classifications

PREPARATION FOR THIRD CLASS

Pham Family | Medical Instrumentations | November 23, 2012

Introductions Background information and Definitions:


An assay is an investigative (analytic) procedure in laboratory medicine, pharmacology, molecular biology for qualitatively assessing or qualitatively measuring the presence or amount or the functional activity of a target entity (the analyte) which can be a drug or biochemical substance or a cell in an organism or organic sample. The measured entity is generally called the analyte, or the measurand or the target of the assay. The assay usually aims to measure an intensive property of the analyte and express it in the relevant measurement unit. (e.g. molarity, density, functional activity in enzyme international units, degree of some effect in comparison to a standard, etc.)

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