In response to the growing use of mass spectrometry in the clinical and biomedical fields, this book collects recent research involving electrospray ionization, neuronal systems, and structural modifications of proteins. The significant advances in instrumentation, methodology, experimentation presented herein will serve to expand the current concept of clinical mass spectrometry.

- __ ___ __ - __ e _e __ M-A-S-S S-P- -C-T-R-O-M- -T-R-Y in Morse code This volume collects descriptions of selected recent developments in state-of the-art mass spectrometric methods and reflects the broad-based approaches that mass spectroscopists apply to a variety of important clinical and bio medical problems. One chapter reviews current mass-spectrometric instrumen tation and techniques, and other chapters describe the use of mass-spectro metric methods for the analysis of diacylglycerylphospholipids; modifications to DNA molecules; the characterization of variant hemoglobins; and...