«Importantly, the authors provide a precise and reproducible protocol to
measure irisin.»
They ordered the antibodies that had been used in more than 80 studies to
measure irisin levels, and they analyzed them using Western blots.
Not exact matches
Furthermore, the investigators developed a protocol, that does not rely on antibodies, to precisely
measure how much
irisin increases in people after exercise.
But new research from an international team of scientists has found that the antibodies used to
measure levels of
irisin in blood were poorly vetted and nonspecific.