Interleukin Protocols

"this volume offers protocols for measurement of various interleukins. Most are of sufficient detail so as to serve as a laboratory guide for investigators. Investigators with a specific interest in analyzing a given interleukin will find this volume helpful. "-Doody's Health Sciences Book Review Journal "Comprehensive and highly practical, Interleukin Protocols offers biomedical investigators a stellar collection of all the major techniques needed to analyze the role of interleukins in disease, to improve diagnosis, and to foster the rapid emergence of new and more powerful therapeutics." - Journal of Investigational Allergology and Clinical immunology "A variety of techniques is represented in 36 chapters which are written in a concise, uniform format b y authors who obviously have a lot of hands-on experience with the methods covered...If you are working in this area, put this book on a shelf in the lab and it will not be just recently started graduate students who will gracefully turn to it. - Chembiochem "The protocols that are described in the book are user friendly, in the sense that they are not only well detailed and easy to follow but also reliable. The researchers that are naive in the field will find a lot of useful information in the book whereas the experienced ones will be able to use the book as a source of additional information on the methods already in use. A must therefore for the psychoneuroendocrinologist with a working interest in the relationships between the (neuroendocrine) brain and the immune system." -Psychoneuroendocriniology

• General Methods for Assaying Interleukin Protein and mRNA.- ELISAs and Interleukin Research.- Elispot Technique for Assaying Interleukins.- Measurement of Interleukins by ELISPOT Assay with Particular Application to Dual-Color Analysis (Stardust Assay).- Assaying Interleukins Intracellularly by FACS.- Basic RT-PCR for Measurement of Cytokine Expression.- Quantitative PCR for Measurement of Cytokine Expression.- Single Cell RT-PCR for the Detection of Cytokine mRNA.- Quantitation of Cytokine mRNA by Flash-Type Bioluminescence.- Measurement of Interleukin mRNA by Northern Blotting Using a Nonradioactive Detection Method.- Quantification of Mouse IL-6 and TNF- ? mRNA Using Xplore Assays.- Measurement of Cytokine and Chemokine mRNA Using Nonisotopic Multiprobe RNase Protection Assay.- Isolation of Total and Bioactive Interleukins by Immunoaffinity-Receptor Affinity Chromatography.- Detection of Cytokines by Immunohistochemistry.- Whole Blood Assays and the Influence of Circadian Rhythmicity on Human Cytokine Measurement.- Illustration of Methodologies Using Individual Interleukins.- Assaying Interleukin-8.- Measurement of Interleukin-2 by Bioassay.- Assaying Interleukin-15.- Assaying Interleukins In Particular Pathologies.- Assaying Interleukin-6 in Breast Cancer.- Cytokines, Stress, and Depressive Illness.- Measurement of Interleukins in Cutaneous Disorders.- Interleukins in Graves? Disease.- Evaluation of Cytokines in Migraine Patients by ELISA.- Assaying Interleukins in Plasma in the Course of Acute Myocardial Infarction.- Assaying Interleukins in Particular Biological Fluids.- Measurement of Cytokines in Peritoneal Fluids.- Measurement of Cytokines in Seminal Plasma.- Measurement of Cytokines in Induced Sputum.- Cytokines in Blister Fluids.- Measurement of Cytokinesin Synovial Fluid.- Measurement of Cytokines in Cerebrospinal Fluid.- Detection of Cytokines in Tears.- Newer Techniques: Interleukin Signal Transduction,.- Measurement of Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase Activation by Interleukins.- Analysis of Interleukin-2 Signaling Using Affinity Precipitations and Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis.- Applications for Green Fluorescent Protein in Cell Signaling.- Use of Pichia pastoris for Production of Recombinant Cytokines.- 35Analysis of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in the Interleukin-1B Gene Using 5? Nuclease Assays.- Measurement of Cytokine and Chemokine Gene Expression Patterns Using cDNA Array.