Convenient and effective method for removing fibrinogen from serum specimens before protein electrophoresis

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 868-872

  Qiu, Ling L ^a   Levinson, Stanley S ^a,b   Keeling, Kristen L ^a   Elin, Ronald J ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; FIBRINOGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CENTRIFUGATION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG PELLET; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN STRUCTURE; INCUBATION TIME; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; PRECIPITATION; PROCESS MONITORING; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; BLOOD PROTEINS; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; ELECTROPHORESIS; ETHANOL; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; PRECIPITATION; SOLVENTS;

EID: 0038359389     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/49.6.868     Document Type: Article

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