Description
Product Characteristics: The kit is a sandwich enzyme immunoassay for in vitro quantitative measurement of GDF9 in human serum, plasma, tissue homogenates, cell lysates, cell culture supernates.
Target Information: Growth factors synthesized by ovarian somatic cells directly affect oocyte growth and function. Growth differentiation factor-9 (GDF9) is expressed in oocytes and is thought to be required for ovarian folliculogenesis. GDF9 is a member of the transforming growth factor-beta superfamily. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]