Clinical Diagnostic Reagents

Cholesterol, HDL

Special Characteristics:

A liquid, homogeneous reagent utilizing antibody selectively reacted to non-HDL-C.
Wako HDL-C calibrator traceable to the US CDC Reference Method

Lipoprotein is classified into low density lipoprotein (LDL) very low density lipoprotein (VLDL), and chylomicrons (CM) according to specific gravity.  In recent years, in addition to total cholesterol high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) has become an important tool used to assess an individual risk of developing CHD since a strong negative relationship between HDL-C concentration and the incidence of CHD was reported.
HDL-C has been assayed by ultracentrifugation, gel filtration, electrophoresis, high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), precipitation and direct process. Recently direct process has been widely used. HDL-C is a liquid type reagent that assays HDL-Cholesterol in serum directly by employing antibody.