... role in the inflamed synovialcompartment [15,16,38]. It would be of interest torepeat these studies of matched RA serum and synovialfluid samples by using our APRIL assay.Our analysis of the ... similar binding proper-ties and in vitro activities to the BLyS and APRIL homo-trimers, and may be present in sera in similar amounts toAPRIL and BLyS, we postulate that they may likely playsimilar ... of assay buffer. Wells werethen resuspended in 100 μl of assay buffer and analyzedby using a Luminex 100 mac hine (Luminex Corporation,Austin, TX, USA). The total assay time was 2 hours. The assayhadabroadrange(~100pg/mlto25ng/ml)withan...