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Kai Aoki1, Koyuki Ota1, Kaoruko Watanabe1
1Department of Health and Nutrition, Faculty of Health Science, Niigata University of Health and Welfare, Niigata, 15, JP.
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Western blotting is a widely used technique for the detection of specific proteins and is a fundamental tool in biomedical research and education. However, conventional chemiluminescent detection systems are expensive and often inaccessible in educational or resource-limited laboratory environments. In this study, we evaluated a low-cost smartphone-based chemiluminescence detection method and demonstrated that it enables reliable qualitative detection of protein expression, highlighting its potential for both educational and basic research applications.
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