"Paraproteins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Abnormal immunoglobulins synthesized by atypical cells of the MONONUCLEAR PHAGOCYTE SYSTEM. Paraproteins containing only light chains lead to Bence Jones paraproteinemia, while the presence of only atypical heavy chains leads to heavy chain disease. Most of the paraproteins show themselves as an M-component (monoclonal gammopathy) in electrophoresis. Diclonal and polyclonal paraproteins are much less frequently encountered.
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D010266
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.124.486.485.900 D12.776.124.790.651.900 D12.776.377.715.548.900
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Precision and reliability of paraprotein determinations by high-resolution agarose gel electrophoresis. Am J Clin Pathol. 1989 Apr; 91(4):435-40.
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Asynchronous development of two monoclonal proteins (IgM lambda and delta 1 chains) in a patient with abdominal lymphoma. Cancer. 1977 May; 39(5):2247-53.