Asialotransferrin - An alternative to carbohydrate-deficient transferrin? [1]

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1022-1023

  Arndt, Torsten ^a  

^a Bioscientia Center for Human Genetics   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASIALOTRANSFERRIN; CARBOHYDRATE DEFICIENT TRANSFERRIN; DISIALOTRANSFERRIN; MONOSIALOTRANSFERRIN; TRANSFERRIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; HUMAN; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LETTER; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS;

ALCOHOLISM; ASIALOGLYCOPROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, CAPILLARY; HUMANS; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; TRANSFERRIN;

EID: 0038021145     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/49.6.1022     Document Type: Letter

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