SENSITIVE ELISA FOR INTERLEUKIN-6 - DETECTION OF IL-6 IN BIOLOGICAL-FLUIDS - SYNOVIAL-FLUIDS AND SERA
SENSITIVE ELISA FOR INTERLEUKIN-6 - DETECTION OF IL-6 IN BIOLOGICAL-FLUIDS - SYNOVIAL-FLUIDS AND SERA
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DOI:
10.1016/0022-1759(91)90063-l
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发表时间:
1991-04-08
影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
AARDEN, L
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作者:
HELLE, M;BOEIJE, L;AARDEN, L
A monoclonal antibody and an affinity purified polyclonal antibody, both raised against recombinant human IL-6, have been employed in an ELISA procedure to quantitate human IL-6. Both antibodies were very potent in neutralizing the biological activity of recombinant as well as natural human IL-6. The monoclonal antibody was used as the capture antibody whilst the polyclonal antibody, in biotinylated form, was used as the detecting antibody in combination with a streptavidin horseradish peroxidase conjugate and a signal amplification system. The detection limit for natural as well as recombinant IL-6 was 1 pg/ml. A good correlation was found between the ELISA and the B9 biological assay when IL-6 was measured in crude culture supernatants, in synovial fluids of rheumatoid arthritis patients and in the sera of patients with diverse diseases. Immunoprecipitation of IL-6, produced by different cell types, such as monocytes, endothelial cells and smooth muscle cells or derived from biological fluids, such as the serum of a patient with septic shock or the synovial fluid of a rheumatoid arthritis patient, revealed in every case only molecules in the molecular weight range of 21,000-26,000.