Mass spectrometry-based proteomics as a diagnostic tool when immunoelectron microscopy fails in typing amyloid deposits

Amyloid

Volumn 18, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages 64-66

  Lavatelli, F ^a   Valentini, V ^a   Palladini, G ^a,b   Verga, L ^a,b   Russo, P ^a   Foli, A ^a   Obici, L ^a   Sarais, G ^a   Perfetti, V ^a   Casarini, S ^a   Merlini, G ^a,b  

^a FONDAZIONE IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN MATTEO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN MU CHAIN;

ABDOMINAL FAT ASPIRATION BIOPSY; ADULT; AGED; AMYLOIDOSIS; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; CASE REPORT; DATA BASE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT AMYLOIDOSIS; HEART AMYLOIDOSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY AMYLOIDOSIS; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 79959980667     PISSN: 13506129     EISSN: 17442818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13506129.2011.574354     Document Type: Article

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