A Guide to Methods in the Biomedical Sciences

Author: Ronald B. Corley
Publisher: Springer
Category: Medicine, Medical Research, Pre-clinical Medicine: Basic Sciences, Medical Genetics, Biology, Life Sciences, Genetics (non-medical), Biochemistry
Age Group: 15+
Book Format: Paperback

Thousands of methods have been developed in the various biomedical disciplines, and those covered in this book represent the basic, essential and most widely used methods in several different disciplines.

Table Of Contents
1: Detection And Analysis Of Proteins

A. Introduction

B. Basic methods for protein analysis

C. Characterization of primary, secondary, tertiary

and quaternary structures of proteins
2: Detection And Analysis Of Nucleic Acids

A. Introduction

B. Basic methods for nucleic acid analysis

C. DNA sequencing

D. Detection and quantitation of RNA
3: Recombinant DNA Techniques: Cloning And Manipulation Of DNA

A. Introduction

B. Plasmid and viral vectors

C. Libraries

D. Site Directed Mutagenesis

E. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)

F. Screening for differentially expressed genes (DEGs)

G. Promoter-protein interactions

H. Silencing gene expression

I. Forensics and DNA technology
4: Antibody-Based Techniques

A. Introduction

B. Monoclonal antibodies

C. Purification and use of antibodies

D. Flow cytometry and fluorescence activated cell

sorting (FACS)

E. Other assays using antibodies
5: Microscopy: Imaging Of Biological Specimens

A. Introduction

B. Light microscopy

C. Fluorescence and laser confocal microarray microscopy

D. Electron Microscopy (EM)

E. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
6: The Derivation And Manipulation Of Experimental

Animals In Biomedical Sciences

A. Introduction

B. Inbred strains of mice

C. Congenic strains of mice

D. Transgenic mice

E. Targeted transgenes: 'knockout' and 'knockin' mice

F. Other uses of mice in biomedical research
References

Some excellent methodology manuals

Index

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