Radioisotopes in Biology - A Practical Approach

Klappentext Provides an introduction to the use of radioactivity in the bioscience laboratory. The text covers general aspects of radioactivity! methods for the detection of radioactivity! radioisotope protocols used to study key cellular processes! and a summary of legislative requirements in the US and European Union. Guidance on safe handling and detailed recipes are provided. Zusammenfassung The book provides an introduction to the use of radioactivity in the bioscience laboratory. An introduction sets the scene, before two chapters that cover general aspects of radioactivity. Methods for the detection of radioactivity are covered in two chapters that deal with scintillation counting and autoradiography. Four chapters are concerned with the radioisotope protocols used to study key cellular processes: radiolabelling of nucleic acids and proteins, subcellular localisation and identification of macromolecules, immunoassay methods and pharmacological techniques. Two chapters provide a summary of legislative requirements in the USA and European Union and there is an Appendix of useful facts and addresses.

Product details

• Authors: Robert J. Slater
• Assisted by: Robert Slater (Editor), Robert J. Slater (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2001
• EAN: 9780199638260
• ISBN: 978-0-19-963826-0
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Practical Approach Series; Practical Approach Series; Practical Approach
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Pharmacy; Pharmakologie, Science, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biochemistry, MEDICAL / Pharmacology, SCIENCE / Physics / Atomic & Molecular, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Molecular Biology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Cell Biology, SCIENCE / Scientific Instruments, SCIENCE / Laboratory Techniques, biochemistry, molecular biology, Cellular biology (cytology), Scientific equipment, experiments & techniques, Atomic & molecular physics, Scientific equipment, experiments and techniques, Atomic and Molecular Physics