Clinical Applications of Capillary Electrophoresis (Methods in Molecular Medicine) [Hardcover]

Stephen M. Palfrey (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Methods in Molecular Medicine | Publication Date: June 15, 1999

Stephen M. Palfrey brings together for first time a collection of detailed capillary electrophoresis protocols designed exclusively for clinical applications. Written by the leading scientists who have often perfected these methods in their own laboratories, the protocols furnish new and more powerful assays for many routine serum and blood tests now regularly performed in clinical laboratories, including serum and urine proteins, hemoglobin separation, and the detection of CSF proteins, lipoproteins, myoglobin, cryoglobulins, and cathepsin D. The protocols offered for DNA analysis include double-stranded DNA analysis, the prenatal diagnosis of Down's syndrome, Rh D/d genotyping, the identification of mutated p53 oncogene, and the detection of microstaellite instability in cancers. Many of the methods can be automated to replace more labor intensive and costly tests that are currently used in most clinical laboratories. Clinical Applications of Capillary Electrophoresis demonstrates clearly the simplicity, versatility, and power of CE over conventional methods.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"...This is a very practical handbook for clinical chemists since it covers applications of CE in most 0 prominent areas of this field...In this book the separation conditions are usually clearly described throughout the text...The book is a well written and easy to use source of practical assays for clinical chemists..."-Chromatographia

"The content is very wide ranging. There are chapters on protein determinations in different biological fluids, different aspects of DNA analysis as well as enzyme assays and determination of exogenous species such as drugs of abuse. Each chapter provides a summary of different methodology that has been used and places CE in this context....the book contains a wealth of information and should be very useful as a reference for scientists in the clinical laboratory who wish to evaluate CE as an alternative to existing analytical methods." -Elsevier

"...not only is the first of its kind, but also is the first book dedicated solely to clinical analysis by CE." - Clinical Chemistry

"This issue of Methods in Molecular Medicine is an interesting, well-edited volume about the clinical application of capillary electrophoresis, which aims to give encouragement and guidance to laboratory practitioners new to CE and to demonstrate that the wide range of assays now available means that it is a technique that has something to offer every clinical laboratory."Haematologia

"...In marked contrast to conventional electrophoresis, on which there are relatively few books,...for those clinical chemistry laboratories starting t o use CE, this will be a useful book bringing together much information into one easily used volume to keep by the instrument and from which to gain useful instruction."- Annals of Clinical Biochemistry

From the Back Cover

In Clinical Applications of Capillary Electrophoresis, Stephen Palfrey brings together for first time a collection of detailed capillary electrophoresis protocols designed exclusively for clinical applications. Written by the leading scientists who have often perfected these methods in their own laboratories, the protocols furnish new and more powerful assays for many routine serum and blood tests now regularly performed in clinical laboratories, including urine protein analysis, hemoglobin separation, and the detection of CSF proteins, lipoproteins, myoglobin, cryoglobulins, HbA1c, and cathepsin. The protocols offered for DNA studies include double-stranded DNA analysis, the prenatal diagnosis of Down's syndrome, Rh D/d genotyping, the identification of mutated p53 oncogene, and the detection of microsatellite instability in cancers. Many of the methods can be automated to replace the more costly and labor-intensive tests that are currently used in most clinical laboratories.
Clinical Applications of Capillary Electrophoresis demonstrates clearly the simplicity, versatility, and power of CE over conventional methods. It offers to beginning clinical investigators, as well as established laboratories new to the technique, a representative range of highly practical CE methods-assays that are not only certain to become ever more productive, but are already eminently useful today.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 212 pages
• Publisher: Humana Press; 1st edition (June 15, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0896036391
• ISBN-13: 978-0896036390
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,050,556 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)