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A miniaturized blotting system for simultaneous detecting of differentautoantibodies

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Protein Blotting and Detection

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Sera of tumor patients frequently contain autoantibodies to tumor-associated antigens. Here we describe a miniaturized immunoblot platform allowing us to screen sera of patients for the presence of autoantibodies to ten autoantigens in parallel.

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This work was supported in part by grants from the Medical Faculty of the TU-Dresden and the BMBF (Germany). We like to thank Martina Franke for her excellent technical support.

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Canzler, U. et al. (2009). A miniaturized blotting system for simultaneous detecting of differentautoantibodies. In: Kurien, B., Scofield, R. (eds) Protein Blotting and Detection. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 536. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-542-8_15

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