Human TGF alpha ELISA Kit

Human TGF alpha ELISA Kit

Catalog No.: IRKTAH5249

$495
Category: Assay and ELISA Kits

Product Description

Human TGF alpha ELISA Kit - 1 Kit (96 Wells)

Our Human TGF alpha ELISA Kit is a sandwich ELISA intended for the quantitative determination of human TGF alpha in cell culture supernates, serum, plasma (heparin, EDTA) and human milk.

Transforming growth factor alpha(TGF-alpha) is upregulated in some human cancers. It is produced in macrophages, brain cells, and keratinocytes, and induces epithelial development. It is closely related to EGF, and can also bind to the EGF receptor with similar effects. TGFalpha stimulates neural cell proliferation in the adult injured brain. Transforming growth factor alpha gene(TGFA) maps to human chromosome 2 close to the breakpoint of the t(2;8) variant translocation in Burkitt lymphoma. Synthetic TGF-alpha was as active as murine epidermal growth factor in binding to the epidermal growth factor receptor and in stimulation of anchorage-dependent and of anchorage-independent growth of normal indicator cells in culture. Synthetic TGF-alpha stimulated plasminogen activator production in A 431 and HeLa cells; the stimulation was similar to that induced by epidermal growth factor. Furthermore, synthetic human TGF-alpha showed similar immunoreactivity when compared with rat TGF-alpha. Thus, the 50-amino acid TGF-alpha is likely to be the bioactive principle produced and secreted by tumor cell lines.

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