Hepcidin is measured in plasma, serum, urine and other body fluids using a patented tracer and a competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).
src="http://ilswp88.staging.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Picture1-300x218.png" alt="" width="250" />The yellow Y-shaped figures represent the hepcidin antibodies, the blue balls represent serum hepcidin, the blue and red balls represent the ILS patented biotinylated hepcidin tracer molecule, and the green figures represent the detection reagent which emits a signal that is detected and quantified.