Type
Sandwich ELISA
Applications
Serum, Plasma, Cell culture supernatant
Sample Requirements
100µL (after dilution)
Storage/Expiration
2–8°C
Calibration Range
7.8-500 pg/mL
Limit of Detection
7.8 pg/mL
Intra-assay (Within-Run)
<10%
Inter-assay (Run-to-Run)
<10%
Features
- Research Use Only.
- This kit measures GDF-15 in human serum, plasma, and cell culture supernatant.
- Assay format is 96 wells.
- Components of the kit are provided ready-to-use, lyophilized, or concentrated.
Research topic
Cardiovascular disease, Cytokines and chemokines and related molecules, Oncology, Reproduction
Summary
Growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF-15) is a member of the TGFβ superfamily whose expression is increased in response to cellular stress and disease as well as by metformin. Identified as a new heart-derived endocrine hormone that regulates body growth, GDF-15 has a local cardioprotective role, presumably due to its autocrine/paracrine properties: antioxidative, anti-inflammatory, antiapoptotic. GDF-15 expression is highly induced in cardiomyocytes after ischemia/reperfusion and in the heart within hours after myocardial infarction (MI). GDF-15 may be a predictive biomarker of adverse cardiac events. Available evidence also suggests that a substantial amount of GDF-15 is secreted in various human cancers, such as ovarian cancer, prostate cancer, and breast cancer, among others.
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Example Instructions for Use (RUO)
Example Instructions for Use (RUO)