Is it possible to take a blood test to check IL-11 levels?
Doesn’t appear so. Labcorp/Quest offer some interleukins, but not 11. CytoDX is the most comprehensive I’ve seen but does not include 11.
Sample report:
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Probably the closest thing you could check is IL-6, although plasma levels in healthy people are extremely low.
IL-6 and IL-11 both signal through hexamers composed of gp130-IL6/11-IL6R/11R homodimers, so the downstream pathways they activate (primarily ERK-MAPK and JAK-STAT) largely overlap, although different patterns of spatial expression confers different functional roles.
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