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Year : 2014  |  Volume : 6  |  Issue : 3  |  Page : 160

Western blot: Technique, theory and trouble shooting

Zhi-Qiang Liu, Tahrin Mahmood, Ping-Chang Yang
Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

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Ping-Chang Yang
Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
Canada

Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None

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DOI: 10.4103/1947-2714.128482

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