University of Pennsylvania
3400 Civic Center Blvd, bldg 421
12-183 Smilow
Philadelphia, PA 19104
United States of Americahttps://www.med.upenn.edu/idom/drc/cores/ria.htmlcite this facility
Heather W Collins
Last Updated: 12/07/2022
Core offers immunoassay, metabolite, and HPLC services to basic, translational, and clinical investigators performing diabetes and related metabolic disease research.RIA /Biomarkers Core is located on the 12th floor of Smilow Center for Translational Research. Approximately 100 different diabetes, obesity and metabolism-related biomarkers from multiple species including human can be assayed using radioimmunoassay (RIA), enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA, both absorbance and fluorometric), multiplex ELISA on the Luminex platform, and enzymatic and HPLC methods for an expanding variety of diabetes and metabolism related metabolites, hormones, catecholamines and cytokines derived from blood, urine, and tissue samples.
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