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MALDI-ISD mass spectrometry analysis as a simple and reliable tool to detect post-translational modifications of hemoglobin variants: the case of Hb Raleigh

  • Selene De Benedittis , Patrizia Spadafora , Marco Gaspari , Gabriele Qualtieri , Olivier Gallo , Gemma Di Palma , Francesca Cavalcanti , Luigi Citrigno and Antonio Qualtieri ORCID logo EMAIL logo

Corresponding author: Antonio Qualtieri, National Research Council, Institute for Biomedical Research and Innovation (IRIB), Cosenza, Italy, E-mail:

  1. Research funding: None declared.

  2. Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.

  3. Competing interests: Authors state no competing of interest.

  4. Informed consent: Not applicable.

  5. Ethical approval: Not applicable.

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Received: 2023-03-31
Accepted: 2023-05-20
Published Online: 2023-06-12
Published in Print: 2023-11-27

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