Clinical Applications of Capillary Electrophoresis -- Serum Protein Electrophoresis -- Urine Proteins -- Electrophoresis of Cerebrospinal Fluid -- Immunosubtraction as a Means of Typing Monoclonal and Other Proteins in Serum and Urine -- Analysis and Classification of Serum Cryoglobulins -- Myoglobin Analysis -- Enzyme Analysis -- Quantification of Human Cytomegalovirus by Competitive PCR and Capillary Electrophoresis -- Laboratory Diagnosis of Structural Hemoglobinopathies and Thalassemias by Capillary Isoelectric Focusing -- Serum Apolipoproteins -- Gene Dosage in Capillary Electrophoresis -- Rapid Analysis of Amplified Double-Stranded DNA by Capillary Electrophoresis with Laser-Induced Fluorescence Detection -- Identification of Mutated p53 in Cancers by Nongel-Sieving Capillary Electrophoretic SSCP Analysis -- Detection of Microsatellite Instability in Cancers by Means of Nongel-Sieving Capillary Electrophoresis -- Serum Lamotrigine Analysis -- Acetonitrile Stacking -- Confirmation of the Presence of Drugs of Abuse in Urine -- Steroid Analysis by Micellar Electrokinetic Capillary Chromatography -- Determination of Polyamines by Capillary Electrophoresis -- Urinary Oxalate and Citrate -- Plasma Nitrite and Nitrate Determination.

In Clinical Applications of Capillary Electrophoresis, Stephen Palfrey brings together for first time a collection of detailed capillary electrophoresis protocols designed exclusively for clinical applications. Written by the leading scientists who have often perfected these methods in their own laboratories, the protocols furnish new and more powerful assays for many routine serum and blood tests now regularly performed in clinical laboratories, including urine protein analysis, hemoglobin separation, and the detection of CSF proteins, lipoproteins, myoglobin, cryoglobulins, HbA1c, and cathepsin. The protocols offered for DNA studies include double-stranded DNA analysis, the prenatal diagnosis of Down's syndrome, Rh D/d genotyping, the identification of mutated p53 oncogene, and the detection of microsatellite instability in cancers. Many of the methods can be automated to replace the more costly and labor-intensive tests that are currently used in most clinical laboratories. Clinical Applications of Capillary Electrophoresis demonstrates clearly the simplicity, versatility, and power of CE over conventional methods. It offers to beginning clinical investigators, as well as established laboratories new to the technique, a representative range of highly practical CE methods-assays that are not only certain to become ever more productive, but are already eminently useful today.