Biomedical Diagnostic Science

Electrochemical Biosensing Systems

Electrochemical Biosensors
Charles A. Wijayawardhana and William R. Heineman
Improved-Accuracy Biosensor Strip for Accu-Chek™ Advantage®
David W. Burke and Nigel A. Surridge
Redox Monomers and Polymers for Biosensors
Naim Akmal and Arthur M. Usmani
Amperometric Microcells for Diagnostic Enzyme Activity Measurements
Robert E. Gyurcsányi, Géza Nagy, Livia Nagy, Alessandra Cristalli, Michael R. Neuman, Ernö Lindner,Richard P. Buck, H. Troy Nagle, and Stefan Ufer
Flow-Through Immunoassay System for Rapid Clinical Diagnostics
Ihab Abdel-Hamid, Plamen Atanasov, Dmitri Ivnitski, and Ebtisam Wilkins

Optical Biosensing Systems

Optical Sensor Arrays for Medical Diagnostics
Keith J. Albert, Caroline L. Schauer, and David R. Walt
Optochemical Nanosensors for Noninvasive Cellular Analysis
Susan L. R. Barker, Heather A. Clark, and Raoul Kopelman
Ultrasensitive and Specific Optical Biosensors Inspired by Nature
Xuedong Song and Basil I. Swanson
Evanescent-Wave Biosensors
Brent A. Burdick
Glow-Discharge-Treated Quartz Crystal Microbalance as Immunosensor
Selma Mutlu, M. Hadi Zareie, Erhan Piskin, and Mehmet Mutlu

Gene Sensing Systems

Diagnostic Polymer Reagents Carrying DNA
Mizuo Maeda, Takeshi Mori, Daisuke Umeno, and Yoshiki Katayama
Electrochemical Gene Sensors
Toshihiro Ihara, Masamichi Nakayama, Koji Nakano, and Mizuo Maeda
Sensing of Second Messengers Using Oligopeptides
Yoshiki Katayama, Yuya Ohuchi, Mizuo Maeda, Hideyoshi Higashi, and Yoshihisa Kudo
Recombinant Photoproteins in the Design of Binding Assays
Jennifer C. Lewis, Agatha J. Feltus, and Sylvia Daunert

Newer Detection Systems

Particle Valency Strip Assays
Judith Fitzpatrick, Michael Munzar, and Regina B. Lenda
Smart Materials for Colorimetric Detection of Pathogenic Agents
Quan Cheng and Raymond C. Stevens
Reagentless Diagnostics: Near-IR Raman Spectroscopy
Irving Itzkan, Tae-Woong Koo, Michael S. Feld, Andrew J. Berger, and Gary L. Horowitz

Diabetes and Cholesterol: Systems and Management

Noninstrumented Quantitative Devices Using Detection Film Built on Woven Fabric
Wai Tak Law
A Survey of Structural and Nonreactive Components Used in the Research, Development, and Manufacture of Solid-Phase Medical Diagnostic Reagents
Myron C. Rapkin
Current Status and Future Prospects of Dry Chemistries and Diagnostic Reagents
Richard Kordal, Naim Akmal, and Arthur M. Usmani

Polymeric Materials, Immobilization, and Biocompatibility

Water-Soluble Phospholipid Polymers as a Novel Synthetic Blocking Reagent in an Immunoassay System
Shujirou Sakaki, Yasuhiko Iwasaki, Nobuo Nakabayashi, and Kazuhiko Ishihara
Biocompatible Phospholipid Polymers for Prevention of Unfavorable Bioreactions on the Surface of Medical Devices
Kazuhiko Ishihara, Yasuhiko Iwasaki, Nobuo Nakabayashi, Michiharu Sakakida, and Motoaki Shichiri
Site-Directed Immobilization of Proteins on Surfaces: Genetic Approaches
Jianquan Wang, Dibakar Bhattacharyya, and Leonidas G. Bachas
Polymeric Microspheres and Related Materials for Medical Diagnostics
Stanislaw Slomkowski, Beata Miksa, Dorota Kowalczyk, Teresa Basinska, Mohamed M. Chehimi, and Michel Delamar

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