Advances in Clinical Chemistry

Advances in Clinical Chemistry, Volume 83, the latest installment in this internationally acclaimed series, contains chapters authored by world-renowned clinical laboratory scientists, physicians and research scientists. The serial discusses the latest, most up-to-date technologies related to the field of clinical chemistry, with this release presenting comprehensive updates on Urinary Nucleosides and Deoxynucleosides, Locked Nucleic Acid Technology for Highly Sensitive Detection of Somatic Mutations in Cancer, Liquid Biopsy: From Basic Research to Clinical Practice, Circulating Tumor Cells and Implications of the Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition, and more.

Provides the most up-to-date technologies in clinical chemistry and clinical laboratory scienceAuthored by world renowned clinical laboratory scientists, physicians and research scientistsPresents the international benchmark for novel analytical approaches in the clinical laboratory

1. Urinary Nucleosides and Deoxynucleosides Małgorzata Patejko, Wiktoria Struck-Lewicka, Danuta Siluk, Małgorzata Waszczuk-Jankowska and Michał J. Markuszewski 2. Locked Nucleic Acid Technology for Highly Sensitive Detection of Somatic Mutations in Cancer Takayuki Ishige, Sakae Itoga and Kazuyuki Matsushita 3. Liquid Biopsy: From Basic Research to Clinical Practice Monica Macias, Estibaliz Alegre, Angel Díaz-Lagares, Ana Patino, Jose L. Perez-Gracia, Miguel Sanmamed, Rafael López-Lopez, Nerea Varo and Alvaro González 4. Circulating Tumor Cells and Implications of the Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition Lori E. Lowes and Alison L. Allan 5. Indoor Tanning a Gianus Bifrons: Vitamin D and Human Cancer Giuseppe Lippi, Gianfranco Cervellin and Elisa Danese 6. Laboratory Assessment of Anemia Sirisha Kundrapu and Jaime Noguez