Main description:

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.

Contents:

1. Urinary Nucleosides and Deoxynucleosides Malgorzata Patejko, Wiktoria Struck-Lewicka, Danuta Siluk, Malgorzata Waszczuk-Jankowska and Michal 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 Diaz-Lagares, Ana Patino, Jose L. Perez-Gracia, Miguel Sanmamed, Rafael Lopez-Lopez, Nerea Varo and Alvaro Gonzalez 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