Anyone know a good IL-1RA antibody for flow cytometry for murine cells?

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Pavankumar Reddy Varanasi

Sometimes you have to check by using alternate names for the antibody. Here is one antibody i found in abcam. But you have to make serial dilutions and check out the opimal concentration that suites your experiments.

Have a look at the data sheet you will get an idea

http://www.abcam.com/il1ra-antibody-epr6483-ab124962.html

Charly Oakley

That makes a lot of sense! I went with the ELISA - R&D did a great kit