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Shanthi NAIDU Kamatham

Slouble interleukin assay ELISA method..samples can be pooled and done.

Gomathi Sundar

Thank you very much Madam. Being community based screening, I am looking for tools that are cost effective. Is IL assay being used routinely in clinical medicine?

Syed Khurram Mushtaq Gardezi

Certainly you can check GDF-15(growth differentiation factor), ST2 (Interleukin-1 family) both of them can readily be checked and both are are validated by good evidence base (lot of high quality literature in regards to HF)

Thank you very much for the reply