Commonly used anti-von Willebrand factor antibody for multimer analysis cross-reacts with fibronectin, which is difficult to distinguish from von Willebrand factor

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Von Willebrand issue (VWF) is a 500- to 15 000-kDa multimeric protein circulating within the blood. When VWF has the next molecular weight, its hemostatic exercise is bigger. The dimensions distribution of VWF multimers is normally analyzed by SDS-agarose gel electrophoresis adopted by immunoblotting. We discovered that essentially the most generally used anti-VWF antibody cross-reacted…