Description
Product Characteristics: The kit is a sandwich enzyme immunoassay for in vitro quantitative measurement of GFAP in human serum, plasma, tissue homogenates, cell lysates, cell culture supernates.
Target Information: This gene encodes one of the major intermediate filament proteins of mature astrocytes. It is used as a marker to distinguish astrocytes from other glial cells during development. Mutations in this gene cause Alexander disease, a rare disorder of astrocytes in the central nervous system. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants encoding distinct isoforms. [provided by RefSeq, Oct 2008]