METHODS AND KITS FOR DETECTING, DIAGNOSING AND MONITORING DISEASES

摘要

The invention provides methods and kits for detecting metabolites in a body fluid by contacting a sample of the body fluid with at least one reducible dye at a pH-value which is higher than the pKa-value of the reducible dye, whereby a color change resulting from reduction of the reducible dye is indicative of the presence of metabolites in the body fluid. The methods and kits are of use in the detection and monitoring of disease conditions.