Radioactive and stable isotope tracers in biomedicine : principles and practice of kinetic analysis /
Wolfe, Robert R.
Wolfe, Robert R.Tracers in metabolic research.
New York ; Chichester : Wiley-Liss,
c1992.
Sequel to: Tracers in metabolic research / Robert R. Wolfe.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Basic characteristics of isotopic tracers -- Terminology for tracer studies -- Isotope ratio mass spectrometry: instrumentation and calculation of isotopic enrichment -- Gas chromatography--mass spectrometry: instrumentation -- Determination of isotopic enrichment by gas chromatography--mass spectrometry -- Chromatography -- Calculation of substrate kinetics: single-pool model -- Calculation of substrate kinetics: multiple-pool models -- Selection of tracer infusion and sampling sites -- Assessment of body composition -- Performance of tracer infusions -- Measurement of total energy expenditure using the doubly-labeled water method -- Measurement of substrate oxidation -- Glucose metabolism -- Lipid kinetics -- Urea kinetics -- Amino acids -- Protein synthesis and breakdown.
Radioactive tracers in biochemistry.
Metabolism