Description
This book presents the results of a comprehensive study of literature on patents, patent applications and other literature, such as journal articles. The survey covers literature published from the United States, Japan and Western Europe between January 1980 and April 1991. The authors have made a selection of many hundreds of documents on immunoassay procedures and systemized them according to entries listed in the contents. Probably the greatest benefit of this publication is that it can avoid researchers reinventing the wheel, hence leading to substantial savings in time and money consumed in laboratory work. This was confirmed during their study where the authors discovered that many immunoassays discussed in the literature cover each other. Immunoassay covers many basic procedures which may form a foothold to new interesting methods, kits and devices. The book will prove to be of great interest to chemists, pharmacologists and bioengineers.
