Circulating Nucleic Acids in Early Diagnosis, Prognosis and Treatment Monitoring An Introduction /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gahan, Peter B. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Advances in Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine, 5
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Medicinal chemistry.; Health promotion.; Nucleic acids.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.; Cancer Research.; Nucleic Acid Chemistry.; Medicinal Chemistry.

DNA and RNA fractions can be isolated from a variety of body fluids including whole blood, serum, plasma, urine, saliva and cerebrospinal fluid from both patients and healthy individuals.  Such isolates can be exploited in the early detection of clinical disorders, stratification of patients for tre...