catalog number :
MBS044625
products type :
ELISA Kit
products full name :
Human Ghrelin ELISA Kit
products short name :
Ghrelin
products gene name :
GHRELIN
specificity :
No significant cross-reactivity or interference between this analyte and analogues is observed.
storage stability :
Store all reagents at 2-8 degree C
other info1 :
Samples: Serum, Plasma and Tissue Homogenate. Assay Type: Sandwich. Detection Range: 62.5 pg/ml - 2000 pg/ml. Sensitivity: 10 pg/ml.
other info2 :
Intra-assay Precision: Intra-assay CV (%) is less than 15%. Inter-assay Precision: Inter-assay CV (%) is less than 15%. [CV(%) = SD/mean ×100].
products description :
Background: This Quantitative Sandwich ELISA kit is only for in vitro research use only, not for drug, household, therapeutic or diagnostic applications! This kit is intended to be used for determination the level of GRN (hereafter termed this analyte) in undiluted original Human serum, plasma and tissue homogenate samples.
ncbi acc num :
ADM33790.1
ncbi summary :
This gene encodes the ghrelin-obestatin preproprotein that is cleaved to yield two peptides, ghrelin and obestatin. Ghrelin is a powerful appetite stimulant and plays an important role in energy homeostasis. Its secretion is initiated when the stomach is empty, whereupon it binds to the growth hormone secretagogue receptor in the hypothalamus which results in the secretion of growth hormone (somatotropin). Ghrelin is thought to regulate multiple activities, including hunger, reward perception via the mesolimbic pathway, gastric acid secretion, gastrointestinal motility, and pancreatic glucose-stimulated insulin secretion. It was initially proposed that obestatin plays an opposing role to ghrelin by promoting satiety and thus decreasing food intake, but this action is still debated. Recent reports suggest multiple metabolic roles for obestatin, including regulating adipocyte function and glucose metabolism. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. In addition, antisense transcripts for this gene have been identified and may potentially regulate ghrelin-obestatin preproprotein expression. [provided by RefSeq, Nov 2014]