Product spotlight: Interleukin-6 (IL-6)

Interleukin-6 (IL-6) is a pleiotropic α-helical cytokine that plays important roles as a central player in the regulation of inflammation, haematopoiesis, immune response and host defense mechanisms. There is substantial evidence that defects in the IL-6 family can negatively impact the body’s response against bacterial, fungal and viral infections. Previous research has suggested that elevated IL-6 is associated with a higher mortality in subjects with community-acquired pneumonia.

IBL-America offers a sensitive and specific human IL-6 ELISA kit to be used for the determination of human IL-6 in human serum, human plasma, cell lysate, culture supernatants and buffered solution. This kit is ideal for researchers and drug devleoprers to help the mechanism of action of new therapeutic antibodies, asses immunogenicity and determine biosimilarity between the candidate drug and its originator. The IBL IL-6 ELISA will recognize native and recombinant human IL-6. This kit has been configured for research use only and is not to be used in diagnostic procedures.

IBL-America offers ELISA kits for Human, Rat and Mice research.