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Simple Paper Electrophoretic Method for detecting Macroglobulinæmia

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ABNORMALLY high concentrations of macroglobulins are known to occur in a number of disease states1. Detection has depended on certain preliminary tests2,3, at times complicated by either false positive or false negative reactions. Definitive evidence is provided only by analytical ultracentrifugation, a procedure not conveniently available at all medical centres.

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LEDER, P. Simple Paper Electrophoretic Method for detecting Macroglobulinæmia. Nature 193, 1087–1088 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/1931087a0

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