Description
Product Characteristics: For the quantitative determination of monkey macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF) concentrations in serum, plasma, tissue homogenates.
Target Information: The protein encoded by this gene is a cytokine that controls the production, differentiation, and function of macrophages. The active form of the protein is found extracellularly as a disulfide-linked homodimer, and is thought to be produced by proteolytic cleavage of membrane-bound precursors. The encoded protein may be involved in development of the placenta. Alternate splicing results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Sep 2011]