Main description:

Advances in Clinical Chemistry, Volume 103, 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 and most up-to-date technologies related to the field of clinical chemistry. It is the benchmark publication for novel analytical approaches in the clinical laboratory.

Contents:

1. Autoantibodies to tumor-associated antigens in lung cancer diagnosis Xiuzhi Zhang, Man Liu, Xue Zhang, Yulin Wang and Liping Dai 2. Extracellular vesicles in cardiovascular disease Chenyuan Huang, Yub Raj Neupane, Xiong Chang Lim, Rawan Shekhani, Bertrand Czarny, Matthias G. Wacker, Giorgia Pastorin and Jiong-Wei Wang 3. Synuclein in neurodegeneration Anastasia Bougea 4. Advances in fluorescent probes for detection and imaging of amyloid-ss peptides in Alzheimer's disease Yunhua Zhang, Cen Ding, Changhong Li and Xiaohui Wang 5. Synthetic drugs of abuse Kenichi Tamama 6. High-sensitivity methods for cardiac troponins: The mission is not over yet Aldo Clerico, Martina Zaninotto, Claudio Passino, Andrea Padoan, Marco Migliardi and Mario Plebani