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Western Blotting: Sample Preparation to Detection
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Western Blotting: Sample Preparation to Detection

Published on: October 14, 2010

A blocking agent and a blocking step are not needed in ELISA, immunostaining dot-blots and western blots

K Mohammad1, A Esen

  • 1Department of Biology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg 24061.

Journal of Immunological Methods
|February 8, 1989
PubMed

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