Hemopoeitic cytokines

[rmoldwin at midway.uchicago.edu]

In article <3j5sbd$kk2$1 at mhadg.production.compuserve.com>, R Barclay 
<100066.300 at CompuServe.COM> writes:

>A number of recent papers employing cytokines to study stem cell 
>expansion and differentiation quote amounts of cytokine (eg IL-3, 
>IL-6, epo, G-CSF) in units (U).  Can anyone give conversion 
>factors from units to weights, and point me to the definitions of 
>these "units".
>
>-- 
>GRB

Look in the catalogs for Genzyme, and R&D.  They have summaries of many 
cytokines, often including conversion information.