Summary

An advanced review and reference handbook of the current and potential applications of mass spectrometry to the practice of clinical biochemistry. Major contributions present the many different instrumental principles and techniques and how they are used in the analysis of compound classes of relevance to defining health and disease. Areas covered: fundamental principles; bile acids; biogenic amines; carbohydrates; lipids; organic acids; endogenous brain peptides; porphyrins and bile pigments; purines and pyrimidines; steroids; reference methods; and stable isotopes in clinical investigations. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)