Quantitative mass spectrometry evaluation of human retinol binding protein 4 and related variants.

Retinol Binding Protein 4 (RBP4) is an exciting new biomarker for the determination of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. It is known that circulating RBP4 resides in multiple variants which may provide enhanced clinical utility, but conventional immunoassay methods are blind to such difference...

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Main Authors: Urban A Kiernan, David A Phillips, Olgica Trenchevska, Dobrin Nedelkov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-03-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3068155?pdf=render