Human Biochemistry and Disease
- 1st Edition - January 8, 2008
- Author: Gerald Litwack
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 9 2 4 3 5 - 9
This textbook is specifically designed for upper-division undergraduate or graduate students in life science or pre-medical majors including dentistry or pharmacology, who are… Read more
This textbook is specifically designed for upper-division undergraduate or graduate students in life science or pre-medical majors including dentistry or pharmacology, who are required to take a biochemistry or medical biochemistry course, but who are not necessarily biochemistry majors. The book adopts a unique approach to the topic compared with other biochemistry textbooks currently available, in that each biochemical subject is introduced by a human disease relating the biochemical principles to be developed in that chapter. The goal is to make biochemistry more meaningful to the student who is not normally shown the connection between biochemistry and medicine.
- Includes an abundance of figures
- Emphasizes human biochemistry
- Introduces each chapter with a relevant disease or clinical relationship
Upper-level undergraduate, graduate, and medical students who must take a required biochemistry or medical biochemistry course as part of their graduation requirement
Introduction and general considerations.Proteins.Enzymes.Carbohydrates.Lipids.Nucleic acids and molecular genetics.Transcription.Polypeptide hormones.Steroid hormones.Metabolism.Growth factors and cytokines.Membrane transport.Dietary metals, iron, micronutrients and nutrition.Blood and lymphatic system.Immunobiochemistry.Neurobiochemistry.Microbial biochemistry.
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 8, 2008
- Language: English
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Gerald Litwack
Dr. Litwack has authored 3 textbooks on biochemistry and hormones (one with John Wiley & Sons and 2 with Academic Press/Elsevier) and he has edited more than 70 volumes in the Vitamins & Hormones series (Academic Press/Elsevier); he has edited 14 volumes entitled Biochemical Actions of Hormones (Academica Press); He has edited (with David Kritchevsky) Actions of Hormones on Molecular Processes (Academic Press)
Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Founding Chair and Professor, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, United States
Emeritus Professor, Rutgers University, United States