Basic Science Techniques in Clinical Practice

✍ Scribed by H. R. H. Patel BMSc.Hons, BM, BCh, MRCS, PhD, FRCS(Urol), FRCS(Eng.Hons), M. Arya FRCS, I. S. Shergill BSc, MRCS (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 162
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Medical researchers including doctors, nurses, medical students and allied health professionals are required to undertake a period of research as part of their career pathway. Basic Science Techniques in Clinical Practice covers the main areas, allowing anyone to set up and complete research projects and this information can easily be translated to clinical projects. Written by international authors to provide a flavor from many institutions, the book’s appeal is cross-sectional, both at hospital and primary care levels worldwide.

The book covers modern laboratory techniques for laboratory-based research, as well as research governance and designing projects. The final sections importantly tackles data analysis and the presentation of the results (oral and written).

This book is valuable reading for all doctors, medical students, and individuals in related specialities, either in research or considering research (e.g. MD, PhD, MSc and Intercalated BSc).

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Research Governance....Pages 1-7
Designing Health Studies....Pages 8-17
Immunohistochemistry....Pages 18-30
Cell Culturing: A Beginner’s Guide to Understanding the Basics of Cell Culturing....Pages 31-37
Flow Cytometry....Pages 38-47
Western, Northern, and Southern Blotting....Pages 48-57
Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization....Pages 58-65
Quantitative Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction....Pages 66-85
Proteonomics: High-Throughput Structural Biology—Methods for Cloning, Protein Expression, and Purification....Pages 86-97
DNA and Tissue Microarrays....Pages 98-108
Basic Scientific Techniques in Recording Cellular Data....Pages 109-116
Presenting and Publishing Research Data....Pages 117-125
Analyzing Health Studies....Pages 126-138
Future....Pages 139-139
Back Matter....Pages 141-150

✦ Subjects

Health Informatics; Laboratory Medicine; Nursing Management/Nursing Research