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Definition of Western blot analysis
1. Noun. a version of Southern blot analysis used to identify antibodies and proteins. ¹
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Medical Definition of Western blot analysis
1. A procedure in which proteins separated by electrophoresis in polyacrylamide gels are transferred (blotted) onto nitrocellulose or nylon membranes and identified by specific complexing with antibodies that are either pre-or post-tagged with a labelled secondary protein. See: immunoblot. Synonym: Western blot, Western blotting. Origin: coined to distinguish it from eponymic Southern blot a. (05 Mar 2000)
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