Description
For samples: Serum, plasma, cell culture supernatants, body fluid and tissue homogenate 1. INTENDED USE This CX40 ELISA kit is a 1.5 hour solid-phase ELISA designed for the quantitative determination of Bovine CX40. This ELISA kit for research use only, not for therapeutic or diagnostic applications!2. PRINCIPLE OF THE ASSAY CX40 ELISA kit applies the competitive enzyme immunoassay technique utilizing a monoclonal anti-CX40 antibody and an CX40-HRP conjugate. The assay sample and buffer are incubated together with CX40-HRP conjugate in pre-coated plate for one hour. After the incubation period, the wells are decanted and washed five times. The wells are then incubated with a substrate for HRP enzyme. The product of the enzyme-substrate reaction forms a blue colored complex. Finally, a stop solution is added to stop the reaction, which will then turn the solution yellow. The intensity of color is measured spectrophotometrically at 450nm in a microplate reader. Theintensity of the color is inversely proportional to the CX40 concentration since CX40 from samples and CX40-HRP conjugate compete for the anti-CX40 antibody binding site. Since the number of sites is limited, as more sites are occupied by CX40 from the sample, fewer sites are left to bind CX40-HRP conjugate. A standard curve is plotted relating the intensity of the color (O.D.) to the concentration of standards. The CX40 concentration in each sample is interpolated from this standard curve