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Measurement of tumour necrosis factor α
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Editor,—In their paper (OpenUrlPubMed), von Baehret al suggest that the high sensitivity Quantikine ELISA for tumour necrosis factor α (TNF-α) is capable of differentiating between trimeric (bioactive) TNF-α and proteolytic split products of TNF-α. Both forms are thought to be measured by the Medgenix assay. They go on to propose that this allows a measure of recently released bioactive TNF-α as …
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