Medical biochemistry

Biochemistry for Medicine and Pharmacy

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Biochemistry today

1. The pet food crisis and Non-protein nitrogen as legitimate and illegitimate feed additive.

Essay and Discussion Themes

1. w:Atherosclerosis
   1. Lipoprotein cell recognition mechanisms
   2. Scavenger system
   3. w:Cell adhesion molecules (CAMs). w:Cytokines.
   4. Oxidized lipoproteins
2. w:Digestion and absorption
3. Plasma buffer systems
4. Kidney
5. w:Nerve impulse, transmission, w:neuromuscular junction and modulators.
6. Chemical military agents and w:antidotes
7. w:The origin of life on Earth
8. The possible origin of life outside Earth (w:Astrobiology)
9. Iron, w:Heme and w:Hemoglobin metabolism and its errors (item, item, item)
10. w:Coagulation
11. Voluntary w:Muscle (item) metabolic peculiarities (item, item, item) and the w:neuromuscular junction
12. w:Connective tissue (w:collagen, w:elastin, w:reticulin) and its main anomalies.
13. w:Nicotine toxicology and w:addiction, w:tolerance (item), w:dopamine and the brain reward pathways

• Vitalism - Is vitalism dead? Is mechanicism firmly established? Are all life processes, including consciousness, emotions, feelings (sentiments), and the sense of being oneself (Self) chemical and organic processes and functions, as neurologist António Damásio says ([1], [2], [3])? Is there a life force that drives the processes of the emergence of life on Earth, growth, tissue differentiation, morphogenesis ([4][5]) and of tissue repair? Something like the egyptians Ka ([6]) ? It's true that the controversy between materialism and idealisms has thousands of years and is likely to stay around; but what do you think yourself?

By alphabetical order of the first author's surname.

• Nelson DL, Cox MM. "Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry". Worth Publishers. New York. 2000. ISBN 1-57259-153-6. http://worthpublishers.com/lehninger

• Osgood M, Ocorr K. "The Absolute, Ultimate Guide to Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry Study Guide and Solution Manual". Worth Publishers. New York. 2000. ISBN 9781572591677.

• Biochemistry Wikibook

• Cooper GM. The Cell, A Molecular Approach [7]

• Devlin TM Ed. "Textbook of Biochemistry with Clinical Correlations". Wiley-Liss. Hoboken. 2006. ISBN 9780471678083.

• Epstein RJ. "Human Molecular Biology: An Introduction to the Basis of Health and Disease". Cambridge University Press. G. Canale & C. S.p.a. 2003. ISBN 9780521644815

• Free Books for Doctors - Biochemistry [8]

• Murray RK, Granner DK, Rodwell VW et al. "Harper's Illustrated Biochemistry". Lange-McGrawHill. Singapore. 2006. ISBN 007-125300-9.

• Smith C, Marks A, Liebermann M. "Mark's Basic Medical Biochemistry: A Clinical Approach." Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Baltimore. 2005. ISBN 0-7817-2145-8

• Stryer's. Missing Up-to-date Reference.
• Stryer's online Biochemistry

• NCBI Bookshelf

• The more general Entrez

• Online Biology Book [9] or [10]

• Exercises