Shanghai Medicilon Inc.

  Radioactive and non-radioactive ligand binding assays There are numerous types of ligand binding assays, both radioactive ligand binding assays and non-radioactive ligand binding assays.  As such, ligand binding assays are a superset of radio-binding assays, which are the conceptual inverse of radioimmunoassays (RIA). Some newer types are called “mix-and-measure” assays because they do not require separation of bound ligands. Ligand binding assays are used primarily in  pharmacology  for various demands. Specifically, despite the human body’s endogenous receptors, hormones and other neurotransmitters, pharmacologists utilize assays in order to create drugs that are selective or mimic, the endogenously found cellular components.  On the other hand, such techniques are also available to create receptor antagonists in order to prevent further cascades.  Such advances provide researchers with the ability not only to quantify hormones and hormone receptors, bu...