Overview
- Editors:
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Victor R. Preedy
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Department of Nutrition and Dietetics Division of Diabetes & Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine King’s College London, London, United Kingdom
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Vinood B. Patel
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Department of Biomedical Sciences Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom
- Bridges intellectual divides and useful for student nurses and advanced practitioners
- Written by experts
- Each chapter has an abstract, key facts, definition of words and terms, potential applications to other diseases conditions or prognosis, summary points
- Fills a much needed gap to have a one volume “one-stop-shopping” synopsis of the scientific basis of biomarker discovery or application
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About this book
In the past decade there has been a major sea change in the way disease is diagnosed and investigated due to the advent of high throughput technologies, such as microarrays, lab on a chip, proteomics, genomics, lipomics, metabolomics etc. These advances have enabled the discovery of new and novel markers of disease relating to autoimmune disorders, cancers, endocrine diseases, genetic disorders, sensory damage, intestinal diseases etc. In many instances these developments have gone hand in hand with the discovery of biomarkers elucidated via traditional or conventional methods, such as histopathology or clinical biochemistry. Together with microprocessor-based data analysis, advanced statistics and bioinformatics these markers have been used to identify individuals with active disease or pathology as well as those who are refractory or have distinguishing pathologies. New analytical methods that have been used to identify markers of disease and is suggested that there may be as many as40 different platforms. Unfortunately techniques and methods have not been readily transferable to other disease states and sometimes diagnosis still relies on single analytes rather than a cohort of markers. There is thus a demand for a comprehensive and focused evidenced-based text and scientific literature that addresses these issues. Hence the formulation of Biomarkers in Disease. The series covers a wide number of areas including for example, nutrition, cancer, endocrinology, cardiology, addictions, immunology, birth defects, genetics, and so on. The chapters are written by national or international experts and specialists.
Table of contents (44 entries)
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- Nikolaus Kohles, Stefan Holdenrieder
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- Joo-Hyun Nam, Jeong-Yeol Park, Min-Hyun Baek, Ji-Hyun Han, Woo-Suk Han, A-Ra Ko
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- Ying Li, Christopher M. Carter, Samer Z. Al-Quran, Robert W. Allan
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- Kleita Michaelidou, Athina Kladi-Skandali, Andreas Scorilas
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- Susumu Nakata, Emma Phillips, Violaine Goidts
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- Rossana Berardi, Francesca Morgese, Agnese Savini, Azzurra Onofri, Stefano Cascinu
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- Thian-Sze Wong, Wei Gao, Zeng-Hong Li
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- Peter Schraml, Manfred Beleut
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- Jaime Berumen, Ana María Espinosa, Ingrid Medina, Mariano Guardado
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- Christos K. Kontos, Panagiotis G. Adamopoulos, Andreas Scorilas
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- Eugenia Allegra, Serena Trapasso
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- Sergei Moshkovskii, Mikhail Pyatnitsky, Petr Lokhov, Ancha Baranova
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- Francesco Salvatore, Claudia Corbo, Marica Gemei, Luigi Del Vecchio
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- Jing Li, Andrew J. Armstrong
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- Dimitrios N. Kanakis, Elmar Kirches
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- Shigeori Takenaka, Shinobu Sato
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- Roberta Bertorelle, Anita De Rossi
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- Pablo Agustin Vargas, Felipe Paiva Fonseca, Oslei Paes de Almeida, Paul M. Speight
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Nutrition and Dietetics Division of Diabetes & Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine King’s College London, London, United Kingdom
Victor R. Preedy
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Department of Biomedical Sciences Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom
Vinood B. Patel
About the editors
Professor Victor R. Preedy is a senior faculty member of King's College London (Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry) and King's College Hospital (Professor of Clinical Biochemistry). He is attached to both the Diabetes and Nutritional Sciences Division and the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics. He is also Director of the Genomics Centre and a member of the School of Medicine. Professor Preedy graduated in 1974 with an Honours Degree in Biology and Physiology with Pharmacology. He gained his University of London PhD in 1981. In 1993 he gained his second doctoral degree, for his outstanding contribution to protein metabolism in health and disease. He has received membership and fellowship of a number of academic and professional bodies in the UK, including the Royal College of Pathologists, the Royal Institute of Public Health, and the Royal Society of Chemistry. Professor Preedy has published over 570 articles, which includes 165 peer-reviewed manuscripts based on original research, 100 reviews, and over 50 books and book volumes.