Prerequisites for cytokine measurements in clinical trials with multiplex immunoassays
Open Access
- 1 January 2009
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Immunology
- Vol. 10 (1), 52
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2172-10-52
Abstract
Growing knowledge about cellular interactions in the immune system, including the central role of cytokine networks, has lead to new treatments using monoclonal antibodies that block specific components of the immune system. Systemic cytokine concentrations can serve as surrogate outcome parameters of these interventions to study inflammatory pathways operative in patients in vivo. This is now possible due to novel technologies such as multiplex immunoassays (MIA) that allows detection of multiple cytokines in a single sample. However, apparently trivial underappreciated processes, (sample handling and storage, interference of endogenous plasma proteins) can greatly impact the reliability and reproducibility of cytokine detection.Keywords
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