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Harper's Illustrated Biochemistry
ISBN: 9780071461979 | 0071461973
Edition: 27thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical
Pub. Date: 6/13/2006
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Harper's Illustrated Biochemistry offers concise, up-to-date, and authoritative coverage of the principles of biochemistry and molecular biology as they relate to medicine. Revised for clarity, with new streamlined organization, new figures, and new online image collection Reflects major advances in biochemistry that are important to medicine Includes new chapters on amino acids and peptides, primary structure of proteins, and the Human Genome Project Presents new and expanded coverage of the mechanisms of action of enzymes, receptors involved ... MORE
| Biochemistry & medicine | p. 1 |
| Water & pH | p. 5 |
| Amino acids & peptides | p. 14 |
| Proteins : determination of primary structure | p. 21 |
| Proteins : higher orders of structure | p. 30 |
| Proteins : myoglobin & hemoglobin | p. 41 |
| Enzymes : mechanism of action | p. 49 |
| Enzymes : kinetics | p. 61 |
| Enzymes : regulation of activities | p. 73 |
| ... MORE | p. 82 |
| Bioenergetics : the role of ATP | p. 88 |
| Biologic oxidation | p. 94 |
| The respiratory chain & oxidative phosphorylation | p. 100 |
| Carbohydrates of physiologic significance | p. 112 |
| Lipids of physiologic significance | p. 121 |
| Overview of metabolism & the provision of metabolic fuels | p. 132 |
| The citric acid cycle : the catabolism of acetyl-CoA | p. 145 |
| Glycolysis & the oxidation of pyruvate | p. 151 |
| Metabolism of glycogen | p. 159 |
| Gluconeogenesis & the control of blood glucose | p. 167 |
| The pentose phosphate pathway & other pathways of hexose metabolism | p. 177 |
| Oxidation of fatty acids : ketogenesis | p. 187 |
| Biosynthesis of fatty acids & eicosanoids | p. 196 |
| Metabolism of acylglycerols & sphingolipids | p. 209 |
| Lipid transport & storage | p. 217 |
| Cholesterol synthesis, transport, & excretion | p. 230 |
| Biosynthesis of the nutritionally nonessential amino acids | p. 241 |
| Catabolism of proteins & of amino acid nitrogen | p. 246 |
| Catabolism of the carbon skeletons of amino acids | p. 254 |
| Conversion of amino acids to specialized products | p. 270 |
| Porphyrins & bile pigments | p. 279 |
| Nucleotides | p. 294 |
| Metabolism of purine & pyrimidine nucleotides | p. 301 |
| Nucleic acid structure & function | p. 311 |
| DNA organization, replication, & repair | p. 322 |
| RNA synthesis, processing, & modification | p. 348 |
| Protein synthesis & the genetic code | p. 365 |
| Regulation of gene expression | p. 380 |
| Molecular genetics, recombinant DNA, & genomic technology | p. 402 |
| Membranes : structure & function | p. 422 |
| The diversity of the endocrine system | p. 442 |
| Hormone action & signal transduction | p. 464 |
| Nutrition, digestion, & absorption | p. 482 |
| Micronutrients : vitamins & minerals | p. 489 |
| Intracellular traffic & sorting of proteins | p. 506 |
| Glycoproteins | p. 523 |
| The extracellular matrix | p. 545 |
| Muscle & the cytoskeleton | p. 565 |
| Plasma proteins & immunoglobulins | p. 588 |
| Hemostasis & thrombosis | p. 606 |
| Red & white blood cells | p. 617 |
| Metabolism of xenobiotics | p. 633 |
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Robert Murray, MD - Professor of Biochemistry, University of Toronto
Daryl Granner, MD - Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University
David Bender, PhD - Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University College of London
Kathleen Botham, PhD - Dept. of Veterinary Basic Sciences, The Royal Veterinary College
Victor Rodwell, PhD - Professor of Biochemistry, Purdue University
