A kit for the determination of the ability of a peripheral blood
mononuclear cell to bind to a polysaccharide herein provided comprises a
detection reagent comprising a fluorescence-labeled immunostimulant
polysaccharide; and a reference reagent comprising a fluorescence-labeled
material of a polysaccharide different from that used in the
fluorescence-labeled immunostimulant polysaccharide, and/or an
immunostimulant polysaccharide which is not labeled with any fluorescent
material and whose polysaccharide moiety is identical to that included in
the fluorescence-labeled immunostimulant polysaccharide. The use of this
kit would permit the estimation of the polysaccharide-binding ability of
a peripheral blood mononuclear cell in a higher precision of estimation.