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Chemically-blocked Antibody Microarray for Multiplexed High-throughput Profiling of Specific Protein Glycosylation in Complex Samples
Published on: May 4, 2012
[Antibodies against alpha, beta, and gamma crystallins in human serum]
1Eye Research Institute, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province.
Abstract:
Serum antibodies against alpha, beta, and gamma crystallins in 79 normal subjects and 38 patients with senile cataract were determined by ELISA, with the result that the presence of the antibodies was related to age, not to sex, and the rate of presence in patients with senile cataract did not differ from that of controls. The relationship between the presence of the antibodies and senile cataract was discussed.
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