Application
Sera from rat has been used:
in food folate analysis to prepare rat serum conjugase to deconjugate folates in extract samples[1]
in the preparation of deconjugase for enzyme digestion[2]
in ex vivo experiments to analyze rat serum spiked with intravenous iron preparations[3]
Biochem/physiol Actions
Rat serum supports the reaggregation of rat islet cells into tridimensional pseudo islets useful for transplantation studies.[1] It functions as an inhibitor of the non-specific binding of rat antibodies in immunochemical techniques.

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