Developmental alterations in the α-fetoprotein sugar chain in maternal serum analyzed by lectin affinity electrophoresis

Acta Medica Okayama

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 103-110

  Kawahara, Nobuaki ^a   Ohta, Masahiro ^a   Liu, Miao ^a   Taga, Hiroko ^b   Taketa, Kazuhisa ^a   Kudo, Takafumi ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b Tumor Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

fetoprotein; Affinity electrophoresis; Lectin; Maternal fetoprotein

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; LECTIN; OLIGOSACCHARIDE;

AMNION FLUID; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROPHORESIS; FEMALE; FETUS BLOOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PREGNANCY;

ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; AMNIOTIC FLUID; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHORESIS; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; LECTINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS;

EID: 0033145871     PISSN: 0386300X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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