Lymphoma (malignant lymphoma or lymphosarcoma) comprises a diverse group of
neoplasms that have in common their origin from lymphocytes. The neoplasms usually arise …

Protein electrophoresis and immunotyping can be a useful adjunct to the standard
biochemical techniques for characterizing serum and urine proteins. This paper reviews …

Cancer-associated hypercalcemia (CAH) is a frequently-occurring paraneoplastic syndrome
that contributes to substantial patient morbidity and occurs in both humans and animals …

Immunofixation is a diagnostic and research tool used for characterizing the electrophoretic
location of immunoglobulin fractions in serum and urine. Commercially available polyclonal …

A 5‐year‐old male neutered Bernese Mountain Dog was presented for cutaneous
plasmacytoma, which was treated by surgical excision. Four months later, the dog …

Background Current recommendations for monitoring disease progression and response to
treatment in humans with multiple myeloma include evaluation of serum paraprotein (M …

Background Densitometric quantitation using serum protein electrophoresis (SPE) is used to
monitor monoclonal proteins (M‐proteins) in human patients but has not been validated in …

Plasma cell tumors represent a spectrum of diseases characterized by clonal proliferation of
homogeneous immunoglobulin‐producing plasma cells or B cells. They encompass …

Electrophoretic techniques, used to separate mixtures of electrically charged particles, are
widely used in science. One of these techniques, native protein electrophoresis in an …

A 5-y-old spayed female Golden Retriever dog was referred because of severe normocytic
normochromic nonregenerative anemia and thrombocytopenia. Serum analysis revealed …