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All about Shibayagi's Insulin Assay Kits

Insulin is a protein hormone secreted from B cells of islet of Langerhans in the pancreas with a molecular weight of about 5,800 and pI 5.4. It is consisted of 2 chains, A and B. It has 3 disulfide bo...

Life Science

A Brief Review of Adiponectin and Shibayagi's Mouse/Rat High Molecular Weight Adiponectin ELISA KIT

This article was written by Katsumi WAKABAYASHI, Ph.D. Prof. Emer. Gunma Univ. Technical Consultant, Shibayagi, Co. Ltd..

Adiponectin is an important cytokine secreted from adipocyte i.e. adipokines. It controls lipid metabolism and insulin sensitivity, showing anti-diabetic, anti-atherogenic, and anti-inflammatory actio...

Cell Culture Life Science

Novel Tool Box for EVs Therapy in Regenerative Medicine

MSC-derived extracellular vesicles isolated by PS affinity method have high anti-inflammatory and anti-fibrotic effects. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are small and lipid bilayer particles released by...

Cell Culture Life Science

Co-culture studies to decode 'biological PINs' and exosomes

Recently, it has become evident that extracellular vesicles, including exosomes, play a major role in the communication of various cells in biology. As such, there has been a dramatic increase in the ...

Life Science

Quantitative detection of residual DNA with DNA Extractor® Kit

This article was written by Hiroki Fukuchi, Life Science Research Laboratories of FUJIFILM Wako Pure Chemical Corporation, Japan.

Since many biopharmaceuticals, including vaccines, are manufactured from cultured cells or microorganisms such as Escherichia coli, it is pointed out that host cell-derived DNA may remain in resultant...

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