Application

Sera from rat has been used: in food folate analysis to prepare rat serum conjugase to deconjugate folates in extract samplesin the preparation of deconjugase for enzyme digestionin ex vivo experiments to analyze rat serum spiked with intravenous iron preparations

Biochem/physiol Actions

Rat serum supports the reaggregation of rat islet cells into tridimensional pseudo islets useful for transplantation studies. It functions as an inhibitor of the non-specific binding of rat antibodies in immunochemical techniques.