IDENTIFYING A MIDREGIONAL PROADRENOMEDULLIN PARTIAL PEPTIDE IN BIOLOGICAL LIQUIDS FOR DIAGNOSTIC PURPOSES, AND IMMUNOASSAYS FOR CONDUCTING AN IDENTIFICATION OF THIS TYPE

摘要

The invention relates to a method for identifying adrenomedullin immunoreactivity in biological liquids for diagnostic purposes and, to be precise, particularly within the scope of sepsis diagnosis, cardiac diagnosis and cancer diagnosis. According to the invention, the midregional partial peptide (mid-proAM; SEQ ID NO:3) of the proadrenomedullin, which contains amino acids (45-92) of the entire preproadrenomedullin (pre-proAM; SEQ ID NO:1), is measured, in particular, with an immunoassay which works with at least one labeled antibody that specifically recognizes a sequence of the mid-proAM.