C-Reactive Protein ELISA Kit

This C-Reactive Protein ELISA Kit, Human is an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for the quantitative measurement of Human C-Reactive Protein protein in Serum . It contains recombinant Human C-Reactive Protein, and antibodies raised against the recombinant protein. This ELISA kit is complete and ready-to-use.C-reactive protein (CRP) is synthesized by the liver in response to factors released by fat cells. It is a member of the pentraxin family of proteins. The levels of CRP rise in response to inflammation. Human C-reactive protein (CRP) is the classical acute phase reactant, the circulating concentration of which rises rapidly and extensively in a cytokine-mediated response to tissue injury, infection and inflammation. Serum CRP values are routinely measured, empirically, to detect and monitor many human diseases. However, CRP is likely to have important host defence, scavenging and metabolic functions through its capacity for calcium-dependent binding to exogenous and autologous molecules containing phosphocholine (PC) and then activating the classical complement pathway. CRP may also have pathogenic effects and the recent discovery of a prognostic association between increased CRP production and coronary atherothrombotic events is of particular interest.