Human IL-6 ELISA Kit PicoKine™

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The Human IL-6 ELISA Kit comes with 96 well with removable strips, so you can remove as many strips as you need before using it, then store the remaining strips in the pouch with desiccant, sealed it tightly and put in storage at 4C. For your data analysis excel will do. All you need to do is to calculate the average absorbance values and create a standard curve, then interpolate the sample concentrations from the standard curve.

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We recommend to use for coating buffers, the standard PBS rather than alkaline carbonate buffers for this antibody Human IL-6 ELISA Kit

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The Human IL-6 ELISA Kit is suitable to use in saliva samples and the usual protocol would apply. No need for pre-treatment of sample before assay.

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We can not provide 2 or 3 different concentrations of the analyte(e.g. serum) for those kits. The QC vials we can provide are recombinant proteins of different concentrtaions.

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EK0410 is not suitable for working with whole cell lysates.

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0.1ml sample will be added into each well, so you need to collect 0.6ml of sample at most if you plan to perform the analysis of ICAM, VCAM, IL-6, IL-10, IL-8 and TNF. And the sample needs to be diluted for the analysis of ICAM, VCAM.

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<0.3pg/ml *The sensitivity or the minimum detectable dose (MDD) is the lower limit of target protein that can be detected by the kit. It is determined by adding two standard deviations to the mean O.D. value of twenty (20) blank wells and calculating the corresponding concentration.

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A: Chelating agents such as EDTA, Heparin and Citrate can irreversibly bind metal ions from the functional domain of IL-6 causing disruption of its protein structure. IL-6 may be denatured as a result and may compromise the assay's measurements. The chilating sites could also be too close to the epitopes needed for detection and block the antigen antibody reaction. We have tested the IL-6 ELISA, treating samples with a number of anticoagulants and decided that heparin, EDTA or citrate can be used for treatment of blood/plasma samples. Do not use other anticoagulents when collecting samples.

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A: We have a web based ELISA curve fitting (4pl) and data analysis tool. Please give it a try: bosterbio.com/biology-research-tools/ELISA-data-analysis-online. You can also consult our article on ELISA data analysis: bosterbio.com/ELISA-data-analysis-instructions

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A: in those Picokine® ELISAs where cell or tissue lysate is a validated sample type, sample preparation instructions for lysate are included in the product insert. Components in lysate and lysis buffer may affect immunoreactivity, so if lysate is not a validated sample type, care must be taken in sample preparation and validation.

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A: Boster Bio does not assess sample stability. Variations in sample collection, processing, and storage may change the stabilityof samples. It is recommend to assay sample on-stat collection when possible, or aliquot into single use volumes and store samples frozen. avoid repetitive freeze-thaw cycles with the stored samples to prevent protein degradation.

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A: although the vials are bottled using aseptic techniques, heat-treated vials, and sterile stock solutions, they are not considered or guaranteed to be sterile. If sterile material is needed for an experiment, the material can be filtered through a 0.2 micron filter designed for use with biological fluids.

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A: we recommend you this article on ELISA data analysis. bosterbio.com/ELISA-data-analysis-instructions. Boster also provides a free tool that you can use to analyze ELISA data. bosterbio.com/biology-research-tools/ELISA-data-analysis-online

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The Human IL-6 ELISA Kit PicoKine™ (EK0410) should be stable but it is not covered by warranty if not stored according to instructions.

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Expiration is based on storage temperature. Store at 4°C for 6 months, at -20°C for 12 months. Avoid multiple freeze-thaw cycles.

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Please see the normal serum range for the Human IL-6 ELISA Kit PicoKine™ (EK0410) below; IL-6 (Catlog no. EK0410), 0-15pg/mL

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For the Human IL-6 ELISA Kit PicoKine™ (EK0410), it is normal that there is fluid in the wells of the plate, and the drops could be removed by patting the plate on a paper towel or by aspiration. For the standard, we never encountered this problem before, and our technicians suggests to centrifuge at 2000-4000×g for 5 minutes after dissolving the standard.

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The Human IL-6 EK0410 Elisa Kit has not been tested on tissue homogenates. Endogenous biotin in tissue homogenates might introduce a false positive signal. We recommend to run a pilot test to confirm the effect of the endogenous biotin first. Add tissue homogenates into the wells and then add ABC and TMB without adding any biotinylated detection antibody to see if any signal will be observed. If no signal is produced, proceed and work on the tissue sample by using the kit.