This book will interest a wide audience concerned with women’s health from the viewpoint of endocrinology, gynaecology and general practice and will provide graduate students and practising clinicians in these disciplines with a valuable reference tool. Furthermore, it will alert basic scientists working in these areas to some of the clinical issues which still need to be addressed.

Cutting edge and readily accessible, The Principles of Clinical Cytogenetics, Third Edition offers physicians who depend on the cytogenetics laboratory for the diagnosis of their patients, students in cytogenetics programs, graduate and medical students studying for board examinations, cytogenetics technologists, and cytogeneticists a clear understanding of what happens in the cytogenetics laboratory to facilitate accurate and timely diagnoses.

Increasing awareness of the problems associated with invasion has led to a rapid growth in research into the dynamics of non–native species and their adverse effects on native biota and human economies. This book provides a synthesis of this fast growing field of research, and is an essential text for undergraduate and graduate students in ecology and conservation management.

The volume consists of 12 chapters written by acknowledged experts of the biomaterials field and covers a wide range of topics and applications.

This book is a timely addition to the literature, as the first in the field, dedicated to detecting this molecule in vivo. It will be welcomed by the community particularly medicinal and analytical chemists, developers of sensors and probes and analytical equipment manufacturers.

Each of the six chapters focusing on particular areas of cardiac pathology is prefaced with a discussion of the relevant cardiac anatomy and physiology that is prerequisite to obtaining thoughtful and goal-oriented studies and complete diagnoses.