Marks' essential medical biochemistry /
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,
[2007]
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| Online Access: | Table of contents |
Table of Contents:
- An overview of fuel metabolism
- Water, acids, bases, and buffers
- Structures of the major compounds of the body
- Amino acids in proteins
- Structure-function relationships in proteins
- Enzymes as catalysts
- Regulation of enzymes
- Cell structure and signaling by chemical messengers
- Structure of the nucleic acids
- Synthesis of DNA
- Transcription: synthesis of RNA
- Translation: synthesis of proteins
- Regulation of gene expression
- Use of recombinant DNA techniques in medicine
- Cellular bioenergetics: ATP and O2
- Tricarboxylic acid cycle
- Oxidative phosphorylation, mitochondrial function, and oxygen radicals
- Generation of ATP from glucose: glycolysis
- Oxidation of fatty acids and ketone bodies
- Basic concepts in the regulation of fuel metabolism by insulin, glucagon, and other hormones
- Digestion, absorption, and transport of carbohydrates
- Formation and degradation of glycogen
- Pathways of sugar metabolism: fructose, galactose, pentose phosphate pathway, and ethanol metabolism
- Synthesis of glycosides, lactose, glycoproteins, and glycolipids and proteoglycans
- Gluconeogenesis and maintenance of blood glucose levels
- Digestion and transport of dietary lipids
- Synthesis of fatty acids, triacylglycerols, eicosanoids, and the major membrane lipids
- Cholesterol absorption, synthesis, metabolism and fate
- Integration of carbohydrate and lipid metabolism
- Protein digestion and amino acid absorption
- Fate of amino acid nitrogen: urea cycle
- Synthesis and degradation of amino acids and amino acid derived products
- Tetrahydrofolate, vitamin B12, and S-adenosylmethionine
- Purine and pyrimidine metabolism
- Intertissue relationships in the metabolism of amino acids.