Journal article
A novel ELISA for mouse activated protein C in plasma
Journal of immunological methods, Vol.314(1), pp.174-181
2006
DOI: 10.1016/j.jim.2006.05.004
PMID: 16828789
Abstract
The Protein C pathway plays a crucial role in the regulation of thrombosis and inflammation. One of the tools that researchers presently use to elucidate mechanisms of action of activated protein C (APC) is the use of transgenic or gene deletion murine models. To correlate observations in these murine models with the APC levels, there is a need for a sensitive and specific assay for circulating murine APC in plasma. We developed an immunological assay to measure the physiological and pharmacologic levels of circulating murine APC. The sandwich ELISA uses an anti-murine anti-protein C antibody capture antibody and human protein C inhibitor (PCI) as a detection reagent, taking advantage of the facts that the mouse lacks plasma PCI and that human PCI forms a 1/1 stable complex with mouse APC. The amount of complex APC:PCI is detected with an anti-human PCI monoclonal antibody. The assay shows improved sensitivity versus enzyme immunocapture assays commonly used to detect human APC and considerably reduces the processing time.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- A novel ELISA for mouse activated protein C in plasma
- Creators
- José A Fernández - Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United StatesSteven R Lentz - Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United StatesDenis M Dwyre - Department of Pathology, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United StatesJohn H Griffin - Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of immunological methods, Vol.314(1), pp.174-181
- Publisher
- Elsevier B.V
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jim.2006.05.004
- PMID
- 16828789
- ISSN
- 0022-1759
- eISSN
- 1872-7905
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2006
- Academic Unit
- Hematology, Oncology, and Blood & Marrow Transplantation; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984094217602771
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