Victor A Gault, Neville H McClenaghan

Understanding Bioanalytical Chemistry

Principles and Applications

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Bioanalytical Chemistry for Life and Health Sciences: Principles and Applications is a single core textbook, with supplementary learning materials, which provides a novel teaching and learning resource for tutors and students of first year undergraduate chemistry. The book describes basic principles, terminology, and core technologies, which include modern experimental techniques and equipment used to analyse important biomolecules in diagnostic, industrial, and research laboratory settings. It also provides an introduction to advanced technologies used in the emerging fields of genomics, peptidomics/proteomics, and metabolomics.

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Although chemistry is core to the life and health sciences, it is often viewed as a challenging subject. Conventional textbooks tend to present chemistry in a way that is not always easily accessible to students, particularly those coming from diverse educational backgrounds, who may not have formally studied chemistry before. This prompted the authors to write this particular textbook, taking a new, fresh and innovative approach to teaching and learning of chemistry, focussing on bioanalysis to set knowledge in context. This textbook is primarily targeted to undergraduate life and health science students, but may be a useful resource for practising scientists in a range of disciplines. In this textbook the authors have covered basic principles, terminology and core technologies, which include key modern experimental techniques and equipment used to analyse important biomolecules in diagnostic, industrial and research settings. Written by two authors with a wealth of experience in teaching, research and academic enterprise, this textbook represents an invaluable tool for students and instructors across the diverse range of biological and health science courses. * Innovative, stand alone teaching and learning resource to enhance delivery of undergraduate chemistry provision to life and health scientists. * Develops student knowledge and understanding of core concepts with reference to relevant, real-life, examples. * Clearly written and user-friendly, with numerous full colour illustrations, annotated images, diagrams and tables to enhance learning. * Incorporates a modern approach to teaching and learning to motivate the reader and encourage student-centred learning.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons / Turner Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 175mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9780470029060
• ISBN-10: 0470029064
• Artikelnr.: 25932957

Autorenporträt

Dr Victor A Gault?and Dr Neville H McClenaghan, both of School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster, Coleraine, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Preface 1 Introduction to biomolecules 2 Analysis and
quantification of biomolecules 3 Transition metals in health and disease 4
Ions, electrodes and biosensors 5 Applications of spectroscopy 6
Centrifugation and separation 7 Chromatography of biomolecules 8 Principles
and applications of electrophoresis 9 Applications of mass spectrometry 10
Immunochemical techniques and biological tracers 11 Bioanalysis by magnetic
resonance technologies: NMR and MRI 12 Bioanalytical approaches from
diagnostic, research and pharmaceutical perspectives 13 Self-Assessment
Appendix 1: International system of units (SI) and common prefixes Appendix
2: The periodic table of the elements Appendix 3: Common solvents and
biological buffers Appendix 4: Answers to self-assessment questions Index