Description
Thrombin is used throughout the diagnostics industry in a variety of coagulation assays, clotting factor tests and defibrination of blood or plasma for serum controls. Thrombin is also used for site specific cleavage of recombinant fusion proteins and in biochemical and medical research applications.
Bovine thrombin, low specific activity, is manufactured in New Zealand from bovine plasma of New Zealand origin using prothrombin activated with thromboplastin extracted from bovine lung tissue. Low specific activity Thrombin is lyophilized under vacuum in glass vials, or in closed trays as a bulk powder, depending on customer requirements. Low specific activity thrombin has a specific activity of 90-300 NIH units/mg protein and greater than 50% total protein.