Marks' essential medical biochemistry /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lieberman, Michael, 1950-
Other Authors: Marks, Allan D., Smith, Colleen M., Marks, Dawn B.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.