The LSRPA is a non-profit professional membership organization established to provide information, education and technical resources to LSRPs, other professionals involved in environmental remediation in the State of New Jersey and students pursuing an education in a discipline related to environmental remediation.
Western blotting and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) are widely used in the protein detection (Savige, 1998). The name of Western blotting, it is also called Western blot. ELISA is the abbreviation of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (Ma and Shieh, 2006).
Applications. 1  Western blotting can be used to identify a specific antibody in a mixture. In this case, known antigens of well-defined molecular weight are separated by SDS-PAGE and blotting onto nitrocellulose. 2  A western blot is also used as the definitive test for mad cow disease.