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Deciphering a macro-troponin I complex; a case report

  • Janice S.C. Chew-Harris EMAIL logo , Stephen O. Brennan , Christopher M. Florkowski , Richard Troughton and Peter M. George

Acknowledgments

A special thanks to staff at Core Biochemistry for performing TnI measurements and staff at Protein Lab for the electrophoretic work done on this case study. We are also grateful to Dr. Samarina Musaad and Dr. Charles Ng, Labtests Auckland, for measuring TnI on the Siemens platform.

  1. Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.

  2. Research funding: None declared.

  3. Employment or leadership: None declared.

  4. Honorarium: None declared.

  5. Competing interests: The funding organization(s) played no role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the report for publication.

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Received: 2016-6-7
Accepted: 2016-8-8
Published Online: 2016-9-22
Published in Print: 2017-3-1

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