Heterophile Antibody Interference in a Multiplexed Fluorescent Microsphere Immunoassay for Quantitation of Cytokines in Human Serum

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 325-329

  Martins, Thomas B ^a   Pasi, Brian M ^a   Litwin, Christine M ^a,b   Hill, Harry R ^a,b  

^a ARUP INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; HETEROPHILE ANTIBODY; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 8; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BODY FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENT MICROSPHERE IMMUNOASSAY; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANTIBODIES, HETEROPHILE; CYTOKINES; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSPHERES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 1642407737     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.11.2.325-329.2004     Document Type: Article

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