Description
Product Characteristics: The kit is a sandwich enzyme immunoassay for in vitro quantitative measurement of midkine in mouse serum, plasma, tissue homogenates, cell lysates, cell culture supernates.
Target Information: This gene encodes a member of a small family of secreted growth factors that binds heparin and responds to retinoic acid. The encoded protein promotes cell growth, migration, and angiogenesis, in particular during tumorigenesis. This gene has been targeted as a therapeutic for a variety of different disorders. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding multiple isoforms have been observed. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2012]