Keywords
biomarkers
LDI MS
silver nanoparticles
Abstract
This article describes a study using laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry to search for potential biomarkers of renal cell carcinoma. The studies were performed on a sample of healthy tissue and a sample of cancer tissue from the kidney of the same patient. Thirty-seven small-molecular-weight compounds were identified, and two of them had previous literature links to cancer.
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