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Rev Hematol Mex 2010; 11 (3)

Henry G Kunkel and multiple myeloma

Palafox D, Llorente L

Language: Spanish
References: 30
Page: 146-151
PDF size: 93.72 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Multiple myeloma’s history begins in the first half of the XIX century with the description of the first patients with the disease. Since that moment, a veritable revolution took place in the fields of medicine, immunology and chemistry, which brought about the discovery of the proteins’ structure, brand new laboratory techniques and a masterly discovery by Henry Kunkel, which radically changed the prevalent conception about myeloma’s physiopathogeny. We herein present with detail the events that lead to the elucidation of the chemical structure of malignant plasma cells’ secreted proteins.


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