Rat Multi-Neurotrophin Screening Rapid ELISA Assay

The Neurotrophin family of growth factors in all mammals including human has four members including Nerve Growth Factor (NGF), Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF), Neurotrophin 3 (NT3) and Neurotrophin 4/5 (NT4/5) . These are all essential to brain development, maturation and adult function, particularly for cell differentiation, survival, death and synaptic regulation.

The Biosensis Multi-Neurotrophin Rapid Screening ELISA kit has been designed to allow rapid screening and quantification of rat NGF, BDNF, NT3 and NT4/5 in cell culture supernatants, lysates, serum and brain extracts. This two-plate kit consists of four sets of 6 strips for each Neurotrophin, allowing for the assay of 16 samples per Neurotrophin tested and a full range of standards, all run in duplicate. It provides the identical sensitivities and ranges that are achieved in the complete, individual ELISA kits, allowing easy progression into the larger individual assay sizes when needed. The Multi-Neurotrophin Rapid Screening ELISA kit presents a cost-effective way to quickly screen multiple samples. It comes complete with all detection reagents and is ready to use.

This Multi-Neurotrophin Screening kit uses the same antibodies as in the individual Rapid ELISA kits. Each kit has been tested for cross-reactivity with other closely related neurotrophins and no cross-reactivity has been observed at 25 ng/mL of each neurotrophin tested. The antibodies used in this kit detect the human and rat form of each neurotrophin, but with varying efficiency depending on the target protein.