Preface
Biochemistry is one of the fundamental subjects of life science, and knowledge of its
practical aspects is absolutely essential for students and researchers. Performing a
practical in biochemistry requires adequate facilities and training laboratories for
organizing meaningful practicals both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Clinical biochemistry is a diagnostics subject, which aims to use standard methods,
to monitor disease development and treatment by biochemical methods. Laboratory
investigations pertaining to clinical biochemistry provide useful information to
clinicians, both in the diagnosis of illness and the monitoring of treatment. The
necessity for a practical manual on orientation toward various aspects of clinical
biochemistry is always desired. The present manual is written in simple language
covering various experimental aspects related with clinical biochemistry such as
urinary analysis of bioorganic constituents and estimation of proteins, urea, sugar,
uric acid, bilirubin, etc., in blood which is essential for early diagnosis of a disease
and also assessment of its therapy efficacy.
The book is specifically helpful to BSc, MLT, MSc, and MSc biochemistry
students. Each chapter begins with theoretical aspects of the practical, and the
experiments are further well supported by self-explanatory tables and simple
calculations that will make the students understand protocols very easily. The
manual is also helpful to teachers who are taking clinical biochemistry practicals
to guide students in a simple way.
The authors hope that the manual will meet the requirement of undergraduate and
postgraduate students studying biochemistry and will be glad to accept constructive
criticisms and suggestions from the faculty, students, and readers to make this
manual a better one in the future.
Rohtak, Haryana, India Vijay Kumar
Chandigarh, India Kiran Dip Gill
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