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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jul 15.
Published in final edited form as: Brain Res. 2020 Apr 27;1739:146861. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2020.146861

Table 2.

Characteristics of commercially-available conventional ELISA assays.

NfL (n=49): Tau (n=36):
Immunoassay format:
Sandwich n (%): 39 (79.6) 35 (97.2)
Competitive n (%): 8 (16.3) 0 (0.0)
Unknown n (%): 2 (4.1) 1 (2.8)
Mode of detection:
Colormetric n (%): 40 (81.6) 28 (77.8)
Chemiluminesent n (%): 5 (10.2) 3 (8.3)
Flourescent n (%): 0 (0.0) 1 (2.8)
Unknown n (%): 4 (8.2) 4 (11.1)
LLOD mean (range): 36.9 (12.4–156.0) pg/mL 42.1 (6.3–500.0) pg/mL

LLOD, lower limit of detection.