Abbreviations.

Introduction (D. Hochstrasser, et al.).

PART I: ASPECTS OF BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH.

1. Proteomics in Biomedicine—A Tool, a Science or an Art? (M. Reymond).

PART II: BLOOD VESSELS.

2. Antibody-Based Vascular Targeting: Proteomic Techniques for the Identification and Quantitation of Membrane Proteins on Endothelial Cells (S. Scheurer, et al.).

3. Vasculature, Vascular Disease, and Atherosclerosis (E. Gianazza & I. Eberini).

4. Discovery of New Diagnostic Markers of Stroke (L. Allard, et al.).

PART III: CANCER.

5. Unravelling Biological Pathways and the Identification of Clinical Markers and Targets in Renal Cancer (R. Banks & P. Selby).

6. Heat Shock Protein 27 in Cancer (C. Sarto, et al.).

7. Proteomic Approaches for Biomarker Discovery in Colorectal Cancer (R. Simpson & D. Dorow).

8. Clinical Proteomics: Ovarian Cancer (A. Alaiya).

9. Protein Expression Profiling Analysis in Hematopoietic Stem Cells: Phenotypic Characterization of Mesenchymal Stem Cells (J. López, et al.).

10. Lymphoblastoid and Lymphoma Cells (R. Joubert-Caron, et al.).

PART IV: PHARMACO-TOXICOLOGY.

11. Chemoresistance in Cancer Cells (J. Poland, et al.).

12. Diabetes Mellitus: Complex Molecular Alterations (G. Schmid & J. Sanchez).

PART V: INFECTIOUS DISEASES.

13. Proteome Approach to Infectious Diseases: Acute-phase Proteins and Antibody Profiles as Diagnostic Indicators in Human Plasma (L. Bini, et al.).

14. Proteomic Studies of Human Lymphocytes: New Insights Into HIV Lymphocyte Infection? (F. Vuadens, et al.).

15. Modifications of Host-Cell Proteomes Induced by Herpes Virus Type 1 (A. Greco, et al.).

16. Francisella Tularensis (J. Stulík, et al.).

PART VI: CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM.

17. Proteomics in Clinical Neurosciences (P. Burkhard & J. Sanchez).

18. Human Cerebrospinal Fluid (P. Davidsson & M. Harrington).

19. Proteomic Applications for Molecular Assessment of Alzheimer's Disease (O. Carrette, et al.).

PART VII: MASS SPECTROMETRY AND BIOINFORMATICS.

20. MALDI MS Imaging in Biomedical Research (M. Stoeckli & T. Farmer).

21. Protein Variations: Resources and Tools (Y. Yip, et al.).

Subject Index.