We used the data from the VA Corporate Data Warehouse, which comprises data from 20 million unique individuals. SPEP reports were collected from July to December 2015 at 5 Veterans Affairs Medical ...

A serum immunofixation test measures specific proteins in your blood. It helps to identify certain illnesses that are otherwise hard to detect, such as multiple myeloma, a blood cancer. The test is ...

2-dimensional electrophoresis (2-DE) is a powerful technique for separating proteins by isoelectric point and molecular weight. 2-DE offers fine-scale resolution of thousands of proteins and, unlike ...

To check if you have a cancer called multiple myeloma, your doctor may ask you to get a test for M protein. If M protein shows up in your blood or urine, it's a sign you might have that disease or ...

Proteins are distinct from one another with respect to their number, type, and sequence of amino acids making up the polypeptide backbone. Therefore, they have unique nutritional attributes, ...

ABSTRACT: Proteomics emerged in the beginning of the 1990s due to the need for new methods for protein analysis. Proteomics is a much newer discipline than genomics, and confronts similar challenges ...

Sebia is the world's leading provider of clinical protein electrophoresis equipment and reagents, a technology used for in-vitro diagnostic (IVD) testing. Its systems analyze proteins in order to ...

Serum protein electrophoresis (SPEP) is a clinical tool used to screen for monoclonal gammopathy, thus it is a critical tool in the evaluation of patients with multiple myeloma. However, SPEP ...