Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 17.
Published in final edited form as: Adv Funct Mater. 2010 Feb 8;20(3):409–421. doi: 10.1002/adfm.200901293

Table 1.

IL-6 ELISA data obtained from dendrimer plate, kit plate, by physical adsorption and dendrimer plate with luminol detection.

concentration [pg ml-1] Dendrimer Plate TMB detection [O.D.] IL-6 kit TMB detection [O.D.] Physical Adsorption TMB detection [O.D.] Dendrimer Plate Luminol detection [R.L.U.]
300 1.975 1.647 1.813
100 0.697 0.643 0.931 7420.6
25 0.213 0.151 0.395 3002.0
6.25 0.085 0.059 0.336 1831.8
1.56 0.05 0.035 0.323 1435.8
0.78 0.042 0.032 0.321 1331.5
0.39 0.038 0.322 1247.9
0.195 0.035 0.321 1226.1
0.098 1205.6
0 0.034 0.031 0.319 1109.6

STD, [0]IL-6 0.00346 0.0025 0.009 33.4

RSD [%], [0]IL-6 10.1 8.1 7.8 6.6

0.999 0.997 0.992 0.995

LLD[a] 0.04438 0.0385 0.346 1209.7

Sensitivity [pg ml-1] < 0.29 < 0.87 < 5.75 < 0.13
[a]

The lower limit of detection (LLD) of IL-6 was determined by adding three STD to the mean OD of five zero standard replicates and calculate the corresponding concentration from the standard curve.