LUMINESCENT TECHNIQUES APPLIED TO BIOANALYSIS

The principle of luminescent systems (firefly and bacterial biolumines cence, luminol, dioxetane and acridans chemiluminescence) is described . The bio-and chemiluminescent reagents can be employed as highly sens itive and, together with immobilized enzymes, also specific detection systems in bioanalytical assays both by using batch determination and continuous flow systems. An example of versatile manifold (flow sensin g device) is shown. A list of possible bioanalytical applications is g iven.