Bookedited by Sergio Caroli, Gyula Záray.
Contents:
Part I Exploring fundamentals
Good clinical practice principles: legal background and applicability / Umberto Filibeck, Angela Del Vecchio, and Fabrizio Galliccia
Clinical chemistry and the quest for quality / Sergio Caroli
Uncertainty in clinical chemistry measurements including preanalytical variables / Marit Sverresdotter Sylte, Tore Wentzel-Larsen, and Bjorn J. Bolann
The role and significance of reference values in the identification and evaluation of trace elements from diet / Pietro Apostoli and Maria Cristina Ricossa
Sample collection, storage, and pretreatment in clinical chemistry / Andrew Taylor
Metal toxicology in clinical, forensic, and chemical pathology / Jose A. Centeno [and others]
Part II Selected applications
Elemental speciation in clinical sciences / Douglas M. Templeton
The role of analytical chemistry in the safety of drug therapy / Sandor Gorog
Analytical techniques and quality control of pharmaceuticals / Fedele Manna, Francesca Rossi, and Rossella Fioravanti
Detection of drugs in biological fluids for antidoping control / Sabina Strano Rossi and Marcello Chiarotti
The applicability of plasma-based techniques to biological monitoring / Ilse Steffan and Goran Vujicic
Atomic spectrometric techniques for the analysis of clinical samples / Pilar Bermejo Barrera, Antonio Moreda Pineiro, and Maria del Carmen Barciela Alonso
Applications of ICP-MS in human biomonitoring studies / Peter Heitland and Helmut D. Koster
Molybdenum in biological samples and clinical significance of serum molybdenum / Munehiro Yoshida
Application of organometallic speciation in clinical studies / Bin He [and others]
Biosensors for drug analysis / Daniela Deriu and Franco Mazzei
Bioimaging of metals and proteomic studies of clinical samples by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) / J. Sabine Becker and J. Susanne Becker
Applications of LC-MS/MS in clinical laboratory diagnostics / Uta Ceglarek, Georg Martin Fiedler, and Joachim Thiery
Metabolomics using UPLC/HPLC-tandem mass spectrometry in diagnosis and research of inherited metabolic diseases / Willem Kulik and Andre B.P. van Kuilenburg
Biomarkers of oxidative stress in plasma and urine / Papasani V. Subbaiah
The use of x-ray techniques in medical research / Imre Szaloki, Gyula Zaray, and Norbert Szoboszlai
Part III Future trends
A new tool based on the use of stable isotopes and isotope pattern deconvolution (IPD)-ICP-MS for nutritional and clinical studies / Hector Gonzalez Iglesias, Maria Luisa Fernandez-Sanchez, and Alfredo Sanz-Medel
Breath analysis: analytical methodologies and clinical applications / Alessio Ceccarini [and others]
Proteo-metabolomic strategies in the future of drug development / Uwe Christians [and others]
Basics in laboratory medicine: past, present, and future / Lorand A. Debreczeni, Anna Kovacsay, and Sandor Nagy.