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THE INFLUENCE OF POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL PRECIPITATION AND OF AGEING PLASMA AND SERUM ON THE MEASUREMENT OF C3dg/d
Author(s) -
JOHNSON ULF
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
acta pathologica microbiologica scandinavica series c: immunology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.909
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1600-0463
pISSN - 0108-0202
DOI - 10.1111/j.1699-0463.1984.tb00073.x
Subject(s) - polyethylene glycol , ageing , chromatography , polyethylene , precipitation , chemistry , medicine , biochemistry , organic chemistry , physics , meteorology
In plasma and serum samples, ageing results in excessive C3dg/d values when measured by electroimmu‐noassay. The use of polyethylene glycol, either in the preparation of the samples or in the electrophoretic gels, gives falsely low values.