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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Bioanalysis. 2012 Oct;4(20):2457–2469. doi: 10.4155/bio.12.246

Figure 7.

Figure 7

(a) Representative MALDI-TOF-MS spectra of a cancer-free patient (top) and a breast cancer patient (bottom); and (b) notched-box plots for the different isomers associated with the triantennary-trisialylated glycan structures derived from the blood sera of the 10 cancer-free patients and 10 breast cancer patients. Symbols: as in Figure 1. In this figure, sialic acid directed toward the left are linked α2,3 while those directed toward the right are linked α2,6. Reproduced with permission from [54].