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Table 1 Assay characteristics for each individual biomarker

From: Core Alzheimer’s disease cerebrospinal fluid biomarker assays are not affected by aspiration or gravity drip extraction methods

Analyte

Amyloid β 1–40

Amyloid β 1–42

Total Tau

Neurogranin Trunc P75

BACE-1

α-synuclein

Technology

Sandwich ELISA (colorimetric)

Vendor

Euroimmun

Euroimmun

Euroimmun

Euroimmun

Euroimmun

Euroimmun

Product code

EQ 6511–9601-L

EQ 6521–9601-L

EQ 6531–9601-L

EQ 6551–       9601-L

EQ 6541–9601-L

EQ 6545–9601-L

Assay design

Capture mAb

ADx103 (2G3)

ADx102 (21F12)

ADx201

ADx451 (ADxNGCT1)

ADx401  (5G7)

ADx301

Detector mAb

ADx101 (3D6)

ADx101 (3D6)

ADx215

ADx403 (ADxNGCI2)

ADx402 (10B8F1)

ADx302

Sample Incubation

Sample volume (μL)

15

15

25

15

15

25

Detector volume (μL)

100

100

100

100

100

100

Incubation time (h)

4

4

4

4

4

4

Incubation temperature (°C)

18–25

18–25

18–25

18–25

18–25

18–25

Sample dilution factor (1:x)

21

No dilution

No dilution

No dilution

No dilution

No dilution

Run validation data

%CV QC samples (n = 3; min-max)

9.6–14.5

4.5–20.8

9.5–10.2

3.6–6.4

5.9–12.4

4.3–5.8

%CV Kit controls (n = 2; min-max)

6.0–9.3

2.6–5.0

3,3–7.7

4.1–4.3

4.1–8.1

3.8–3.9

Intra-assay CV (%) (n = 2; min-max)

0.0–15.3

0.0–23.6

0.0–17.3

0.0–12.9

0.0–8.8

0.0–12.7

Calibrator

Calibrator range (pg/mL)

54–986

81–1724

56–1552

53–1799

238–11,212

150–5988

Sample concentration range (pg/mL)

p5

3785

188

251

154

1098

1226

p25

5933

383

342

229

1647

1742

p50

8500

589

405

350

2091

2311

p75

10,529

882

529

472

2904

2952

p95

13,542

1272

812

745

3583

4190

Minimum

2431

92

186

115

940

1085

Median

8501

589

405

349.5

2091.5

2311.5

Maximum

18,307

1592

922

1194

5172

5388

  1. Abbreviations: amyloid beta, mAb monoclonal antibody, p5 percentile 5, pg/mL picograms/milliltre, CV coefficient of variation, μL microlitre