High-precision isotopic analysis of essential mineral elements in biomedicine: Natural isotope ratio variations as potential diagnostic and/or prognostic markers

TrAC - Trends in Analytical Chemistry

Volumn 76, Issue , 2016, Pages 182-193

  Costas Rodríguez, Marta ^a   Delanghe, Joris ^b   Vanhaecke, Frank ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biomedical applications; Bone mineral balance; Cancer; Essential elements; Isotopic analysis; Liver cirrhosis; MC ICP MS; Metabolism; Metals; Natural isotope ratio variations

Indexed keywords

BONE; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; METABOLISM; METAL ANALYSIS; METALS; MINERALS; PHYSIOLOGY;

BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; BONE MINERALS; CANCER; ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MC-ICP-MS; NATURAL ISOTOPES;

ISOTOPES;

CALCIUM; COPPER; IRON; MINERAL; ZINC;

ANEMIA; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BONE MINERAL; BREAST CANCER; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; COPPER BLOOD LEVEL; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ERYTHROCYTE LEVEL; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HIGH PRECISION ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IRON BLOOD LEVEL; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; URINALYSIS; WILSON DISEASE;

EID: 84952661565     PISSN: 01659936     EISSN: 18793142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trac.2015.10.008     Document Type: Review

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