Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology – Measuring or testing process involving enzymes or... – Involving antigen-antibody binding – specific binding protein...
Patent
1994-10-05
1997-04-15
Green, Lora M.
Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology
Measuring or testing process involving enzymes or...
Involving antigen-antibody binding, specific binding protein...
435 71, 435 792, 435 794, 435 795, 435975, 436501, 436506, 436509, 436518, 436 72, 436811, G01N 3353, G01N 33564
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active
056208596
ABSTRACT:
A process to aid in the diagnosis of silicone related disease in which a correlation between silicone related disease and the presence of antibodies that bind to partially polymerized acrylamide is disclosed.
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Garry Robert F.
Plymale Douglas R.
Tenenbaum Scott A.
Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund
Green Lora M.
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