chapter INTRODUCTION -- chapter 1 ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION Ch. 1 Liquid chromatography and sample pretreatment -- chapter 2 Ch. 2 Mass spectrometry -- chapter 3 TECHNOLOGY Ch. 3 Strategies in LCMS interfacing -- chapter 4 Ch. 4 History of LCMS interfaces -- chapter 5 Ch. 5 Interfaces for atmospheric-pressure ionization -- chapter 6 Ch. 6 Atmospheric-pressure ionization -- chapter 7 APPLICATIONS: SMALL MOLECULES Ch. 7 LCMS analysis of pesticides -- chapter 8 Ch. 8 Environmental applications of LCMS -- chapter 9 Ch. 9 LCMS in drug discovery and development -- chapter 10 Ch. 10 LCMS in drug metabolism studies -- chapter 11 Ch. 11 Quantitative bioanalysis using LCMS -- chapter 12 Ch. 12 Clinical applications of LCMS -- chapter 13 Ch. 13 LCMS analysis of steroids -- chapter 14 Ch. 14 LCMS in food safety analysis -- chapter 15 Ch. 15 LCMS analysis of plant phenols -- chapter 16 APPLICATIONS: BIOMOLECULES Ch. 16 LCMS analysis of proteins -- chapter 17 Ch. 17 LCMS analysis of peptides / Enabling technologies -- chapter 18 Ch. 18 LCMS in proteomics -- chapter 19 Ch. 19 LCMS for identification of post-translational modifications -- chapter 20 Ch. 20 LCMS analysis of oligosaccharides -- chapter 21 Ch. 21 LCMS analysis of lipids and phospholipids -- chapter 22 Ch. 22 LCMS analysis of nucleic acids.