Probing Protein Aggregation with Quartz Crystal Microbalances

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 752, Issue , 2011, Pages 137-145

  Knowles, Tuomas P J ^b   Devlin, Glyn L ^b   Dobson, Christopher M ^b   Welland, Mark E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Biosensors; Kinetics; Quartz crystal microbalance

Indexed keywords

INSULIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; KINETICS; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; QUARTZ CRYSTAL MICROBALANCE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; INSULIN; KINETICS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; QUARTZ CRYSTAL MICROBALANCE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 79960986128     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-223-0_9     Document Type: Chapter

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