HARPER'~ BIOCHEMISTRY is designed to provide medical and other health sciences students a concise and comprehensive overview of up-to-date biochemical knowledge for an understanding of the maintenance of health and of the cause and effective treaanent of disease. The book's success in achievir.g its pt!i,,_;~ is auested by its wide use as a textbook in medical biochemistry courses. The contents are organized into a preface, six main sections, and an appendix. The preface includes a discussion of the imponance of biochemistry to medicine, the methods used to study biochemica1 systems, and the properties of water and its role in health and disease. The separate chapter on water and pH stresses the role of water in health and disease. Five sections give a comprehensive treatment of the following areas: protein structure and function; metabolism of carbohydrates and lipids; metabolism of proteins and amino acids; gene expression; and hormone systems. Each section is further divided into chapters. Each chapter opens with an introduction and a discussion of the bio-mcdical importance of the topic. Inasmuch as the book aims to be concise, a summary or a problem set is not provided. However, a list of references for further reading is given. The last section covers various topic including several new additions such as water-soluble vitamins; fat-soluble vitamins, nutrition, xenobiotics, and diseases viewed from a biochemical perspective. The appendix which gives an intetprelation of laboratory t.ests and their diagnostic applications is a useful reference in clinical siblations.
ISSN 2719-1990 (Print)
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