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Centro Selection Guide - Choose the right Microplate Luminometer

BERTHOLD TECHNOLOGIES is renowned for their luminometers with thousands of instruments installed all over the world.

Various models and configurations of the Centro luminometer family are available. All of them guarantee high sensitivity and reliability combined with flexibility and ease-of-use.

  • CentroPRO  -  attractive entry level for research
  • CentroLIA  -  stand alone in diagnostics
  • CentroLIApc  -  the diagnostics model
  • Centro  -  the versatile model for all applications
  • CentroXS3  -  for extreme sensitivity

We have the instrument matching your needs.



Instrument

 Centro CentroXS3

CentroPRO

 CentroLIApc

 CentroLIA

Plate formats 96 and 384 wells 96 and 384 wells 96 wells 96 wells 96 wells
Sensitivity 5 amol ATP/well
2 zmol firefly luciferase

1.5 amol ATP/well
1.5 zmol
firefly luciferase

 20 amol ATP/well
7.5 zmol firefly luciferase		 20 amol ATP/well
7.5 zmol firefly luciferase		 20 amol ATP/well
7.5 zmol firefly luciferase
Injectors

Up to 3      
1 in reading position

 Up to 3 external external external
Heating Up to 42°C ambient ambient ambient ambient
Shaking 3 modes/ 3 speeds 3 modes/ 3 speeds 1 modes/ 3 speeds 1 modes/ 3 speeds 3 modes/ 3 speeds
Software & Operation PC based MikroWin Ratio calculation (DLR), kinetics, curve fit, automation support PC based MikroWin Ratio calculation (DLR), kinetics, curve fit, automation support PC based ICE software incl. ratio calculation (Dual-Glo) PC based ICE software incl. immunoassay data reduction Onboard sofIA immunoassay data reduction for LIA & ILMA
Preferred Applications

- Aequorin-based Calcium monitoring
-Acridinium-ester-based Immunoassay
- Cellular Luminescence

 - Reporter gene assay (single and dual)
- ATP Determination
-CALUX Assays

-Reporter Gene Assay (Dual-Glo)

-ATP Determination

 Immunoassays (LIA): HRP/ALP labels with luminescent substrates Immunoassays (LIA): HRP/ALP labels with luminescent substrates



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