anthony p. corfield and a group of hands-on expermentalists bring together in glycoprotein methods and protocols: the mucins a state-of-the-art collection of reliable and tested methods for the study of all aspects of mucins. these powerful methods range from the preparation of mucins to their detection and quantitation with molecular biological and biochemical reagents. also included are methods for the assessment of mucin peptide and carbohydrate, of mucin biosynthesis and degradation, and of mucin bacteriology and cell biology. glycoprotein methods and protocols: the mucins offers todays researchers a complete range of readily reproducible analytical techniques for the analysis of mucins.