What are the best ways to measure ER Stress in humans?

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Adam Lightfoot

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21266232

Here's a methods paper which give an in-depth description of characterising ER stress, with respect to IIM.

Babul Moni Ram

ER stress is generally measured by increased expression of ER chaperones BiP, PDI etc. Also the activation of UPR pathways viz IRE1, PERK and ATF6 can be measured.

Matthew R Clark

Thank you Dr. Ram

Thank you Dr. Lightfoot for this very interesting reference.