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Netter's Essential Biochemistry

  • 1st Edition - November 14, 2016
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Peter Ronner
  • Language: English

Concise writing, a focus on clinical applications, and superb illustrations make Netter’s Essential Biochemistry, by Peter Ronner, PhD, the perfect choice for a basic understand… Read more

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Concise writing, a focus on clinical applications, and superb illustrations make Netter’s Essential Biochemistry, by Peter Ronner, PhD, the perfect choice for a basic understanding of biochemistry.. A single expert voice, informed by the insights of a team of reviewers, provides continuity throughout the text, presenting essentials of biochemical principles step by step. Summary diagrams help you grasp key concepts quickly, and end-of-chapter questions reinforce key concepts.

Key features

  • Provides a highly visual, reader-friendly approach to the challenging area of biochemistry
  • Integrates the clinical perspective throughout the text, giving context and meaning to biochemistry
  • Frames every chapter with helpful synopses and summaries, and ends each chapter with review questions that reinforce major themes
  • Illustrates key concepts with beautifully clear drawings and diagrams of biochemical processes which are supplemented with art from the renowned Netter collection, bridging basic sciences with clinical practice
  • Student Consult™ eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, and references from the book as well as new materials (outlined above) designed to produce a more rounded learning experience

Table of contents

1. The Human Karyotype and the Structure of DNA

2. DNA Repair and Therapy of Cancer

3. DNA Replication

4. Clinical Tests Based on DNA or RNA

5. Basic Genetics for Biochemistry

6. Transcription and RNA processing

7. Protein Synthesis and Posttranslational Protein Processing

8. Cell Cycle and Cancer

9. The Structure of Proteins and Protein Aggregates in Degenerative Diseases

10. Enzymes and Consequences of Enzyme Deficiencies

11. Biological Membranes

12. Collagen, Collagenopathies, and Diseases of Mineralization

13. Pathologic Alterations of the Extracellular Matrix that Involve Fibrillin, Elastin, or Proteoglycans

14. Heme Metabolism, Porphyrias, and Hyperbilirubinemia

15. Iron Metabolism: Iron-Deficiency Anemia and Iron Overload

16. Erythropoiesis, Hemoglobin Function, and the CBC

17. Hemoglobinopathies

18. Carbohydrate Transport, Carbohydrate Malabsorption, and Lactose Intolerance

19. Glycolysis and its Regulation by Hormones and Hypoxia

20. Fructose and Galactose Metabolism: Hereditary Fructose Intolerance and Galactosemia

21. Pentose Phosphate Pathway, Oxidative Stress, and Glucose 6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency

22. Citric Acid Cycle and Thiamine Deficiency

23. Oxidative Phosphorylation and Mitochondrial Diseases

24. Glycogen Metabolism and Glycogen Storage Diseases

25. Gluconeogenesis and Fasting Hypoglycemia

26. Insulin and Counterregulatory Hormones

27. Fatty acids, Ketone Bodies, and Ketoacidosis

28. Triglycerides and Hypertriglyceridemia

29. Cholesterol Metabolism and Hypercholesterolemia

30. Metabolism of Ethanol and the Consequences of Alcohol Dependence Syndrome

31. Steroid Hormones and Vitamin D

32. Eicosanoids

33. Signaling

34. Digestion of Dietary Protein and Net Synthesis of Protein in the Body

35. Protein degradation, Amino Acid Metabolism, and Nitrogen Balance

36. One-Carbon Metabolism, Folate Deficiency, and Cobalamin Deficiency

37. Pyrimidine Nucleotides and Chemotherapy

38. Gout and Other Diseases Related to the Metabolism of Purine Nucleotides

39. Diabetes

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 14, 2016
  • Language: English

About the author

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Peter Ronner

Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania