TY - CHAP AU - Ning Ma AU - Mariko Murata AU - Shiho Ohnishi AU - Raynoo Thanan AU - Yusuke Hiraku AU - Shosuke Kawanishi ED - Tapan Kumar Khan Y1 - 2012-04-27 PY - 2012 T1 - 8-Nitroguanine, a Potential Biomarker to Evaluate the Risk of Inflammation-Related Carcinogenesis N2 - Clinicians, scientists, and health care professionals use biomarkers or biological markers as a measure of a person’s present health condition or response to interventions. An ideal -biomarker should have the following criteria: (I) ability to detect fundamental features of the disease, (II) ability to differentiate from other closely related diseases, (III) ability to detect early stages and stages of progression, (IV) the method should be highly reliable, easy to perform and inexpensive, and (V) sample sources should be easily accessible from body. Most of the chapters in this book follow the basic principle of biomarkers. BT - Biomarker SP - Ch. 10 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/36750 DO - 10.5772/36750 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-05-10 ER -