Description
Product Characteristics: The kit is a sandwich enzyme immunoassay for in vitro quantitative measurement of DEFb1 in human serum, plasma, tissue homogenates, cell lysates, cell culture supernates.
Target Information: Defensins form a family of microbicidal and cytotoxic peptides made by neutrophils. Members of the defensin family are highly similar in protein sequence. This gene encodes defensin, beta 1, an antimicrobial peptide implicated in the resistance of epithelial surfaces to microbial colonization. This gene maps in close proximity to defensin family member, defensin, alpha 1 and has been implicated in the pathogenesis of cystic fibrosis. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]