Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the seventh edition
- List of contributors
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Basic principles
- 2 Cell culture techniques
- 3 Centrifugation
- 4 Microscopy
- 5 Molecular biology, bioinformatics and basic techniques
- 6 Recombinant DNA and genetic analysis
- 7 Immunochemical techniques
- 8 Protein structure, purification, characterisation and function analysis
- 9 Mass spectrometric techniques
- 10 Electrophoretic techniques
- 11 Chromatographic techniques
- 12 Spectroscopic techniques: I Spectrophotometric techniques
- 13 Spectroscopic techniques: II Structure and interactions
- 14 Radioisotope techniques
- 15 Enzymes
- 16 Principles of clinical biochemistry
- 17 Cell membrane receptors and cell signalling
- 18 Drug discovery and development
- Index
- Plate section
Preface to the seventh edition
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the seventh edition
- List of contributors
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Basic principles
- 2 Cell culture techniques
- 3 Centrifugation
- 4 Microscopy
- 5 Molecular biology, bioinformatics and basic techniques
- 6 Recombinant DNA and genetic analysis
- 7 Immunochemical techniques
- 8 Protein structure, purification, characterisation and function analysis
- 9 Mass spectrometric techniques
- 10 Electrophoretic techniques
- 11 Chromatographic techniques
- 12 Spectroscopic techniques: I Spectrophotometric techniques
- 13 Spectroscopic techniques: II Structure and interactions
- 14 Radioisotope techniques
- 15 Enzymes
- 16 Principles of clinical biochemistry
- 17 Cell membrane receptors and cell signalling
- 18 Drug discovery and development
- Index
- Plate section
Summary
In designing the content of this latest edition we continued our previous policy of placing emphasis on the recommendations we have received from colleagues and academics outside our university. Above all, we have attempted to respond to the invaluable feedback from student users of our book both in the UK and abroad. In this seventh edition we have retained all 16 chapters from the previous edition. All have been appropriately updated to reflect recent developments in their fields, as exemplified by the inclusion of a section on stem cells in the cell culture chapter. Three of these chapters have new authors and have been completely rewritten. Robert Burns, Scottish Agricultural Science Agency, Edinburgh has written the chapter on immunochemical techniques, and Andreas Hofmann, Eskitis Institute of Molecular Therapies, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia has written the two chapters on spectroscopic techniques. We are delighted to welcome both authors to our team of contributors.
In addition to these changes of authors, two new chapters have been added to the book. Our decision taken for the sixth edition to include a section on the biochemical principles underlying clinical biochemistry has been well received and so we have extended our coverage of the subject and have devoted a whole chapter (16) to this subject. Written in collaboration with Dr John Fyffe, Consultant Biochemist, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill, Glasgow, new topics that are discussed in the chapter include the diagnosis and management of kidney disease, diabetes, endocrine disorders including thyroid dysfunction, conditions of the hypothalamus–pituitary–adrenal axis such as pregnancy, and pathologies of plasma proteins such as myeloma.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010