| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 308 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Nutrition -- Metabolism and energy -- Regulating body weight -- Digestion and absorption -- Synthesis, mobilisation & transport of lipids & lipoproteins -- The liver -- Alcohol metabolism & cirrhosis -- Protein structures -- Enzymes and diagnosis -- The kidney -- Haemostasis -- Bone metabolism and calcium homeostasis -- Intracellular signalling -- Inflammation -- The immune response -- Mitochondrial dysfunction -- Nerve & muscle systems -- The cytoskeleton -- Genes & medicine -- Antimicrobial drug resistance |
| Summary |
This text addresses the growing need for a new kind of textbook for medical and biomedical undergraduates that presents a fully integrated approach to biochemistry and medicine, rather than covering biochemistry on a topic by topic basis with a smattering of 'medical cases' to demonstrate relevance. The majority of pre-clinical medical students do not need a detailed biochemistry text book, but rather "biochemistry as a basis" or as an "add-on". The major challenge for them is to integrate biochemical knowledge, to clinical application in the understanding of the etiology o |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Text in English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Clinical biochemistry.
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Biochemistry.
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Biochemical Phenomena
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Biochemistry
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biochemistry.
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MEDICAL -- Pathology.
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MEDICAL -- Pathophysiology.
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Biochemistry
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Clinical biochemistry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010018059 |
| ISBN |
9780470666616 |
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0470666617 |
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9781119956464 |
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1119956463 |
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9780470743270 |
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0470743271 |
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