Description
Product Characteristics: The kit is a sandwich enzyme immunoassay for in vitro quantitative measurement of BMP7 in mouse serum, plasma, tissue homogenates, cell lysates, cell culture supernates.
Target Information: The bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) are a family of secreted signaling molecules that can induce ectopic bone growth. Many BMPs are part of the transforming growth factor-beta (TGFB) superfamily. BMPs were originally identified by an ability of demineralized bone extract to induce endochondral osteogenesis in vivo in an extraskeletal site. Based on its expression early in embryogenesis, the BMP encoded by this gene has a proposed role in early development and possible bone inductive activity. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]