Clinical implications of the types of cryoglobulins determined by two- dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis

Haematologica

Volumn 83, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 693-700

  Tissot, Jean Daniel ^a   Pietrogrande, Maurizio ^b   Testoni, Lucia ^b   Invernizzi, Fulvio ^b  

^a Fondation Ctr de Transfus S   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

2 D PAGE; Cryoglobulinemic syndrome; Cryoglobulins

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; CRYOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOELECTROPHORESIS; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PURPURA;

AGED; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; CRYOGLOBULINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL NERVES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031753228     PISSN: 03906078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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