The Quantikine® Mouse Serum Amyloid A Immunoassay is a 4.5 hour solid-phase ELISA designed to measure mouse SAA in cell culture supernates, tissue culture supernates, serum, and plasma. It contains E. coli-expressed recombinant mouse SAA1 and antibodies raised against the recombinant factor. This immunoassay has been shown to accurately quantitate the recombinant mouse SAA. Results obtained using natural mouse SAA showed dose response curves that were parallel to the standard curves obtained using the Quantikine® mouse kit standards. These results indicate that this kit can be used to determine relative mass values for natural mouse SAA.

Intra-Assay Precision (Precision within an assay) Three samples of known concentration were tested twenty times on one plate to assess intra-assay precision

Inter-Assay Precision (Precision between assays) Three samples of known concentration were tested in twenty separate assays to assess inter-assay precision. Assays were performed by at least three technicians using two lots of components

The recovery of mouse SAA spiked to levels throughout the range of the assay was evaluated.

To assess the linearity of the assay, samples containing and/or spiked with high concentrations of mouse SAA were diluted with Calibrator Diluent to produce samples with values within the dynamic range of the assay.