Biomarkers of Disease: An Evidence-based Approach

From: Clinical Chemistry | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Biomarkers of Disease: An Evidence-based Approach. Andrew K. Trull, Laurence M. Demers, David W. Holt, Atholl Johnston, J. Michael Tredger, and Christopher P. Price, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, 516 pp., $110.00, hardcover. ISBN 0-521-81102-3.

This book, published last year, is based on the EMBODY 2000 conference held in Cambridge, England. It consists of 48 chapters and is organized into parts; one part deals with the diagnostic power of biomarkers (4 chapters); six parts discuss biomarkers of kidney (4 chapters), bone (6 chapters), liver (10 chapters), gastrointestinal ...

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