Heparin enables the reliable detection of endotoxin in human serum samples using the Limulus amebocyte lysate assay

Abstract The determination of lipopolysaccharide (endotoxin) in serum or plasma samples using Limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL)-based assays is currently not sufficiently reliable in clinical diagnostics due to numerous interfering factors that strongly reduce the recovery of LPS in clinical samples. T...

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Main Authors: Stephan Harm, Claudia Schildböck, Denisa Cont, Viktoria Weber
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-01-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-52735-8