AN INTERMEDIATE TEXTBOOK OF PHYSIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY WITH EXPERIMENTS
1 Biochemical Perspective to Medicine 1 2 Subcellular Organelles and Cell Membranes 7 3 Amino Acids: Structure and Properties 19 4 Proteins: Structure and Function 27 5 Enzymology: General Concepts and Enzyme Kinetics 40 6 Chemistry of Carbohydrates 60 7 Chemistry of Lipids 73 8 Overview of Metabolism 83 Contents 9 Major Metabolic Pathways of Glucose 90 10 Minor Metabolic Pathways of Carbohydrates 113 11 Metabolism of Fatty Acids 127 12 Cholesterol and Lipoproteins 146 13 MCFA, PUFA, Prostaglandins and Compound Lipids 160 14 General Amino Acid Metabolism (Urea Cycle, One Carbon Metabolism) 170 15 Simple, Hydroxy and Sulfur Containing Amino Acids (Glycine, Serine, Methionine, Cysteine) 183 16 Acidic, Basic and Branched Chain Amino Acids (Glutamic Acids, Aspartic Acid, Lysine, Arginine, Nitric Oxide, Histidine, Valine, Leucine, Isoleucine) 194 17 Aromatic Amino Acids and Amino Acidurias (Phenylalanine, Tyrosine, Tryptophan, Proline) 203 18 Citric Acid Cycle 216 19 Biological Oxidation and Electron Transport Chain 223 20 Free Radicals and Anti-Oxidants 236 21 Heme Synthesis and Breakdown 242 22 Hemoglobin (Structure, Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide, Transport, Abnormal Hemoglobins) 254 23 Clinical Enzymology and Biomarkers 266 24 Regulation of Blood Glucose, Insulin and Diabetes Mellitus 274 25 Cardiovascular Diseases and Hyperlipidemias 292 26 Liver and Gastric Function Tests 301 27 Kidney Function Tests 314 28 Plasma Proteins 329 29 Acid-Base Balance and pH 339 30 Electrolyte and Water Balance 355 31 Body Fluids (Milk, CSF, Amniotic Fluid) 365 32 Clinical Laboratory: Screening of Metabolic Diseases; Quality Control 368 33 Fat Soluble Vitamins (A, D, E, K) 379 34 Water Soluble Vitamins (Thiamine, Riboflavin, Niacin, Pyridoxine, Pantothenic acid, Biotin, Folic acid, Vitamin B12 and Ascorbic acid) 391 35 Mineral Metabolism and Abnormalities 411 36 Energy Metabolism and Nutrition 432 37 Detoxification and Biotransformation of Xenobiotics 446 38 Environmental Pollution and Heavy Metal Poisons 451 39 Nucleotides; Chemistry and Metabolism 457 40 Deoxyribo Nucleic Acid (DNA): Structure and Replication 469 41 Transcription and Translation 481 42 Inheritance, Mutations and Control of Gene Expression 498 43 Recombinant DNA Technology and Gene Therapy 512 44 Mechanisms of Action of Hormones 520 45 Hypothalamic and Pituitary Hormones 528 46 Steroid Hormones 532 47 Thyroid Hormones 538 48 Signal Molecules and Growth Factors 543 49 Immunochemistry 553 50 Biochemistry of AIDS and HIV 563 51 Biochemistry of Cancer 567 52 Tissue Proteins in Health and Disease 581 53 Applications of Isotopes in Medicine 592 54 General Techniques for Separation, Purification and Quantitation 599 55 Molecular Diagnostics 612