QuickDetect™ BSA (Human) ELISA Kit

Bovine serum albumin (BSA) is a serum albumin protein derived from cows. It is often used as a protein concentration standard in lab experiments. BSA is a small, stable, moderately non-reactive protein, it is often used as a blocker in immunohistochemistry. During immunohistochemistry, which is the process that uses antibodies to identify antigens in cells, tissue sections are often incubated with BSA blockers to bind nonspecific binding sites. BSA is also used as a nutrient in cell and microbial culture. In restriction digests, BSA is used to stabilize some enzymes during the digestion of DNA and to prevent adhesion of the enzyme to reaction tubes, pipet tips, and other vessels. BioVision’s QuickDetect™ BSA ELISA kit is a sandwich ELISA assay for measuring the quantity of BSA in human serum, plasma and cell culture and other biological fluid. The entire process can be performed within 90 minutes with only a single incubation and a wash step respectively, resulting in fewer handling steps, fewer errors and more consistent results.