Title: immunochemical specificity
Long Title: IUPAC Gold Book - immunochemical specificity
DOI: 10.1351/goldbook.09672
Status: current

Definition
The extent to which the immunoassay responds only to (all subsets of) a specific analyte and not to other substances of similar structure that are present in the sample.

Source
- PAC, 2018, 90, 1121. 'Terminology of bioanalytical methods (IUPAC Recommendations 2018)' on page 1139 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2016-1120)

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Citation: Citation: 'immunochemical specificity' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.09672
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