Pain-Free Biochemistry (eBook)

Professor Paul Engel is professor of biochemistry at University College Dublin. He has had extensive experience teaching biochemistry to undergraduate and postgraduate biochemistry, biology, medicine, engineering and nursing students, in his current post at UCD and at the universities of Sheffield, Oxford and Hong Kong. He is on the Editorial Board of Biochemical Journal, and Essays in Biochemistry, and is the author of the highly successful textbook: Enzyme Kinetics (Outline Series) published by Chapman and Hall.

Preface.

INTRODUCTION.

1. A biochemical hierarchy: from the cell to its Human.

ESSENTIAL TOPICS IN BIOCHEMISTRY, PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOLOGY.

2. Energy: in the body, tissues and biochemical processes.

3. Enzymes: their properties, regulation and physiology.

4. Transport into the body: the gastrointestinal tract, digestion and absorption.

5. Transport: into the cell.

ESSENTIAL METABOLISM.

6. Carbohydrate metabolism.

7. Fat metabolism.

8. Amino acid and protein metabolism.

9. Oxidation of fuels and ATP generation.

10. Metabolism of Ammonia: degradation of nucleotides; the ornithine cycle.

11. Synthesis of fats, fatty messengers and cholesterol.

12. Hormones: chemical communication.

ESSENTIAL PROCESSES OF LIFE.

13. Physical activity: in non-athletes, athletes and patients.

14. Acid/Base balance in normal and pathological states.

15. Mental activity and mental illness.

16. Nutrition.

17. Starvation.

18. Mechanisms of defence: barriers, enzymes and the immune system.

19. Trauma.

20. Sexual reproduction.

COMMON CLINICAL PROBLEMS AND DISEASES.

21. Growth of cells and the skeleton.

22. Atherosclerosis, hypertension and myocardial infarction.

23. Cancer.

24. Eating disorders: anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.

25. Obesity and adipose tissue.

26. Lipoprotein metabolism and dyslipoproteinaemias.

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