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Peptide and Protein Quantification Using Automated Immuno-MALDI (iMALDI)
Published on: August 18, 2017
Urine Immunoglobulin Light Chain Fragments Detected by MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry
Danelle H Moonen1, Elijah J Murray1, Angela Dispenzieri1,2
1Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN, United States.
Clinical Chemistry
|July 17, 2026
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