Table 4.
Kit name | Platform | Sample media | Cytokine sources | Number of cytokines | Signal readout | Linear range [pg mL−1] |
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Bio‐Plex Pro assay | Luminex | Tissue and cell culture supernatants, plasma, and serum | Human | 27 | Median fluorescence intensity (MFI) | 10–104 |
MILLIPLEX MAP plex kit | Luminex | Human serum, plasma and cell culture supernatants | Human | 13 | MFI | 3.2–104 |
Invitrogen 25‐plex kit |
Luminex | Human serum, plasma and cell culture supernatants | Human | 25 | MFI | 0.5–3.6 × 104 |
Invitrogen magnetic 30‐plex kit | Luminex | Human serum, plasma and cell culture supernatants | Human | 30 | MFI | 0.5–3.6 × 104 |
Human enhanced sensitivity 3‐plex kit | Flow cytometry | Tissue culture supernatants, plasma, and serum samples | Human | 3 | MFI | 0.3–2 × 102 |
Becton Dickinson human Th1/Th2 cytokine kit | Flow cytometry | Tissue culture supernatants, EDTA plasma, and serum samples | Human | 14 | MFI | Nondetermined −5 × 103 |
MACSPlex cytokine kit | Flow cytometry | Serum, plasma, and cell culture supernatants | Human | 12 | MFI | Nondetermined −104 |
Plex Th cytokine 13‐plex panel | Flow cytometry | Serum and cell culture supernatant samples | Human | 13 | MFI | Nondetermined −104 |
U‐PLEX biomarker group 1 (NHP) assays | MSD | Serum, plasma, cell culture supernatant | Nonhuman primates | 30 | Light signal | Nondetermined −1.8 × 105 |
Human Th1/Th2 10‐plex Ultra‐Sensitive kit | MSD | Serum, plasma | Human | 10 | Light signal | Nondetermined −104 |
Human pro‐inflammatory‐9 ultrasensitive kit | MSD | Serum, plasma | Human | 9 | Light signal | Nondetermined −105 |