Medical Definition of Dot blot
1.
Method for detecting a specific protein or message. A spot of solution is dotted onto nitrocellulose paper, a specific antibody or probe is allowed to bind and the presence of bound antibody/probe then shown by using a peroxidase coupled second antibody, as in Western blotting or by other visualisation methods.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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