**Meet the editor**

Dr Khan's primary research focus is to study the molecular pathways of neurodegenerative diseases and to identify and to understand the molecular events responsible for the diseases. His long-term research goal is to understand the complex molecular etiology which is affected by age related neurological diseases like Alzheimer's disease and develop therapeutic and diag-

nostic methods (specially, peripheral biomarker) for treatment. Dr. Khan has published several top-rated research articles in Alzheimer's disease biomarker area. He is also inventor of several US and international patents based on diagnostic method of Alzheimer's disease.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Chapter 2 **Epigenetics in Cancer:** 

Chapter 1 **MicroRNAs are Novel Biomarkers for** 

Teresa de Souza Fernandez,

Chapter 3 **Biomarkers in Gastrointestinal Cancer:** 

Chapter 4 **Inorganic Signatures of Physiology:** 

Chapter 5 **Urinary Water-Soluble Vitamins as** 

Chapter 6 **Potential Muscle Biomarkers of** 

Chapter 7 **Genotoxicity Biomarkers:** 

**Chronic Myalgia in Humans –** 

Björn Gerdle and Britt Larsson

Lydia Finney

James Howard Pringle

**Detection of Colorectal Cancer 1**  Muhammad Imran Aslam, Maleene Patel, Baljit Singh, John Stuart Jameson and

**The Myelodysplastic Syndrome as** 

Vanessa Deschoolmeester, Filip Lardon, Patrick Pauwels and Marc Peeters

Tsutomu Fukuwatari and Katsumi Shibata

Manuel Carmo Gomes and Miguel Brito

**a Model to Study Epigenetic Alterations as Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarkers 19** 

André Mencalha and Cecília de Souza Fernandez

**Focus on Colon, Pancreatic and Gastric Cancer 49** 

**The X-Ray Fluorescence Microscopy Revolution 77** 

**Nutritional Biomarker to Estimate Their Intakes 87** 

**A Systematic Review of Microdialysis Studies 103** 

**Application in Histopathology Laboratories 133**  Carina Ladeira, Susana Viegas, Elisabete Carolino,
