| Product name | Rat Vitamin A (VA) ELISA Kit |
| Reactivity | Rat |
| Applications | ELISA |
| Applications notes | This Rat Vitamin A (VA) ELISA Kit employs a two-site sandwich ELISA to quantitate VA in samples. An antibody specific for VA has been pre-coated onto a microplate. Standards and samples are pipetted into the wells and anyVA present is bound by the immobilized antibody. After removing any unbound substances, a biotin-conjugated antibody specific for VA is added to the wells. After washing, Streptavidin conjugated Horseradish Peroxidase (HRP) is added to the wells. Following a wash to remove any unbound avidin-enzyme reagent, a substrate solution is added to the wells and color develops in proportion to the amount of VA bound in the initial step. The color development is stopped and the intensity of the color is measured. |
| Detection method | Colorimetric |
| SampleType | Cell culture supernatants, Other biological fluids, Plasma, Serum |
| Assay type | Sandwich ELISA (quantitative) |
| Assay duration | Multiple steps standard sandwich ELISA assay with a working time of 3-5 hours. It depends on the experience of the operation person. |
| Alternative | VA |
| Kit components | • Rat Vitamin A microplate • Rat Vitamin A standard • Rat Vitamin A detect antibody • Streptavidin-HRP • Standard diluent • Assay buffer • HRP substrate • Stop solution • Wash buffer • Plate covers |
| Features & Benefits | Rat Vitamin A (VA) ELISA Kit has high sensitivity and excellent specificity for detection of Rat VA. No significant cross-reactivity or interference between Rat VA and analogues was observed. |
| Calibration range | Please inquire |
| Limit of detection | Please inquire |
| Usage notes | • Do not mix components from different kit lots or use reagents beyond the kit expiration date. • Allow all reagents to warm to room temperature for at least 30 minutes before opening. • Pre-rinse the pipet tip with reagent, use fresh pipet tips for each sample, standard and reagent to avoid contamination. • Unused wells must be kept desiccated at 4 °C in the sealed bag provided. • Mix Thoroughly is very important for the result. It is recommended using low frequency oscillator or slight hand shaking every 10 minutes. • It is recommended that all samples and standards be assayed in duplicate or triplicate. |
| Storage instructions | The unopened kit should be stored at 2 - 8°C. After opening, please store refer to protocols. |
| Shipping | Gel pack with blue ice. |
| Precautions | The product listed herein is for research use only and is not intended for use in human or clinical diagnosis. Suggested applications of our products are not recommendations to use our products in violation of any patent or as a license. We cannot be responsible for patent infringements or other violations that may occur with the use of this product. |
| Background | Vitamin A is a group of unsaturated nutritional organic compounds that includes retinol, retinal, retinoic acid, and several provitamin A carotenoids (most notably beta-carotene). Vitamin A has multiple functions: it is important for growth and development, for the maintenance of the immune system and good vision.Vitamin A is needed by the retina of the eye in the form of retinal, which combines with protein opsin to form rhodopsin, the light-absorbing molecule necessary for both low-light (scotopic vision) and color vision. Vitamin A also functions in a very different role as retinoic acid (an irreversibly oxidized form of retinol), which is an important hormone-like growth factor for epithelial and other cells. In foods of animal origin, the major form of vitamin A is an ester, primarily retinyl palmitate, which is converted to retinol (chemically an alcohol) in the small intestine. The retinol form functions as a storage form of the vitamin, and can be converted to and from its visually active aldehyde form, retinal. All forms of vitamin A have a beta-ionone ring to which an isoprenoid chain is attached, called a retinyl group. Both structural features are essential for vitamin activity.The orange pigment of carrots (beta-carotene) can be represented as two connected retinyl groups, which are used in the body to contribute to vitamin A levels. Alpha-carotene and gamma-carotene also have a single retinyl group, which give them some vitamin activity. None of the other carotenes have vitamin activity. The carotenoid beta-cryptoxanthin possesses an ionone group and has vitamin activity in humans. Vitamin A can be found in two principal forms in foods: Retinol, the form of vitamin A absorbed when eating animal food sources, is a yellow, fat-soluble substance. Since the pure alcohol form is unstable, the vitamin is found in tissues in a form of retinyl ester. It is also commercially produced and administered as esters such as retinyl acetate or palmitate. The carotenes alpha-carotene, beta-carotene, gamma-carotene; and the xanthophyll beta-cryptoxanthin (all of which contain beta-ionone rings), but no other carotenoids, function as provitamin A in herbivores and omnivore animals, which possess the enzyme beta-carotene 15,15'-dioxygenase which cleaves beta-carotene in the intestinal mucosa and converts it to retinol.[9] In general, carnivores are poor converters of ionone-containing carotenoids, and pure carnivores such as cats and ferrets lack beta-carotene 15,15'-dioxygenase and cannot convert any carotenoids to retinal (resulting in none of the carotenoids being forms of vitamin A for these species). |
| Alternative | VA |
Fig.1. Rat Vitamin A (VA) Standard Curve.
Fig.2. Abbkine ELISA kit is series of sandwich ELISA to quantitate specific protein in samples.
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1.The species of antibody reactivity should be the sample species that can be matched normally after Abbkine R&D experts have passed strict scientific verification. If your sample is not within the range of reactivity, in order to improve the efficiency and results of your experiment, it is not suggested to try other species. Otherwise, it may lead to sample mismatch and affect the effect of your experiment.
2.Please aliquot the antibody received as soon as possible and store it at -20℃, avoid repeated freezing and thawing, and use it within one year.
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