Secondary structural changes of proteins in fingernails of chronic fatigue syndrome patients from Fourier-transform infrared spectra

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 402, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 75-78

  Sakudo, Akikazu ^a   Kuratsune, Hirohiko ^b,c   Kato, Yukiko Hakariya ^a,c   Ikuta, Kazuyoshi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANSAI UNIVERSITY OF WELFARE SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

ATR; Chronic fatigue syndrome; Curve fitting; Infrared spectroscopy; Secondary structure

Indexed keywords

AMIDE;

ADULT; ALPHA HELIX; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINGER NAIL; HUMAN; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SPECTROPHOTOMETER;

ADULT; FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAILS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED;

EID: 60649113829     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2008.12.020     Document Type: Article

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