Chapter Ⅰ Introduction to the Profession 1
Lesson 1 History of the Education of Clinical Laboratory Personnel 1
Lesson 2 Professionals within the Clinical Laboratory 7
Lesson 3 Clinical Disciplines in the Hospital Laboratory 13
Lesson 4 Places of Employment 16
Chapter Ⅱ Introduction to Medical Terminology 21
Lesson 1 Medical Terminology 21
Lesson 2 Exercises in Constructing Medical Terms 27
Chapter Ⅲ Disciplines in Laboratory Medicine 33
Lesson 1 Hematology 35
Lesson 2 Microbiology 42
Lesson 3 Clinical Chemistry 48
Lesson 4 Urinalysis 53
Lesson 5 Immunohematology 56
Lesson 6 Immunology 62
Chapter Ⅳ Laboratory Mathematics 67
Lesson 1 Measurement Systems 67
Lesson 2 Solutions and Dilutions 74
Lesson 3 Expressions of Concentration 79
Lesson 4 pH and Acid-Base Relationships 93
Lesson 5 Photometry 99
Lesson 6 Basic Statistics 105
Chapter Ⅴ Laboratory Technology 115
Lesson 1 Gram s Method 115
Lesson 2 Tumor Marker 120
Lesson 3 The Polymerase Chain Reaction 126
Lesson 4 Blood Grouping 132
Lesson 5 Hyperlipidaemia 138
Lesson 6 Laboratory Diagnosis 145
Lesson 7 Sterilization and Disinfection 152
Lesson 8 Coagulation Mechanism 157
Lesson 9 Developing Protein Chips for Protein Expression Profiling 163
Lesson 10 Specific Protein Determination 168
Lesson 11 Therapeutic Drug Monitoring 175
Lesson 12 Chemiluminescent and Bioluminescent Techniques 183
Lesson 13 Enzymatic Colorimetric of Bile Acids 190
Lesson 14 Immunotechnology 197
Lesson 15 DNA or Gene Cloning 204
Lesson 16 The Safety Controversy of Gene Cloning 210
Lesson 17 DNA Microarray—A Technology That is Reshaping Molecular Biology 216
Lesson 18 Enzymes in Clinical Diagnosis 221
Lesson 19 The Oral Glucose Tolerance Test and Diabetes Mellitus 228