Claims
- 1. A composition for use as an electrophoretic medium comprising:
an electrophoretic gel; a polymerization initiator; a buffer; and an adhesive agent allowing adhesion of polymerized electrophoretic medium onto a surface of an thermoplastic electrophoretic cassette.
- 2. A composition according to claim 1 wherein the gel comprises acrylamide gel, optionally cross-linked, agarose gel or starch gel; the polymerization initiator comprises ammonium persulfate and N,N,N,N-tetramethylethylenediamine (TEMED); 4-dimethylaminopropionitrile; 1-hydroxycyclohexyl phenyl ketone; 2,2-diethoxy-acetophenone; 2,2-dimethoxy-2-phenylacetophenone; 2′,4′-dimethoxyacetophenone; 2-hydroxy-2-methyl-1-propiophenone; 2-hydroxy-2-methyl-1-phenylpropan-1-one, and mixtures thereof; the buffer comprises tris-borate EDTA, tris-acetate-EDTA, tris-glycine, tricine, or mixtures thereof; and the adhesive agent comprises at least one tetra-substituted silicon derivative wherein the substituents are the same or different and comprise a straight or branched alkyl, alkoxy, ketone, ester or amide each comprising from 1 to 8 carbon atoms, amino, halogen, cyano or hydroxy.
Parent Case Info
[0001] This application is a divisional of the application Ser. No. 09/387,758 filed on Sep. 1, 1999.
Divisions (1)
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Number |
Date |
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Parent |
09387758 |
Sep 1999 |
US |
Child |
10078401 |
Feb 2002 |
US |