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Wills' biochemical basis of medicine.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford ; Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2001 (reprinted 2003)Edition: 3rd ed. / Brian Gillham, Despo K. Papachristodoulou, J. Hywell ThomasDescription: xviii, 476 p. : ill. ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 0750620137
Other title:
  • Biochemical basis of medicine
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 612.015 20
LOC classification:
  • QP514.2 .W55 1996
Contents:
Preface to the third edition -- Preface to the second edition -- Preface to the first edition -- Acknowledgements -- Ch. 1. What happens where in the living mammalian cell? -- Ch. 2. Roles of extracellular and intracellular membranes: membrane structure and membrane transport -- Ch. 3. Biochemical communication -- Ch. 4. Cellular organelles: the nucleus -- Ch. 5. Cellular organelles: mitochondria and energy conservation -- Ch. 6. The cytosol -- Ch. 7. Cellular organelles: the endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi apparatus -- Ch. 8. Cellular organelles: lysosomes -- Ch. 9. Plasma glucose and its regulation -- Ch. 10. Plasma lipids and their regulation -- Ch. 11. Plasma amino acids and utilization of amino acids by the tissues -- Ch. 12. Plasma calcium and phosphate homeostasis -- Ch. 13. Digestion and absorption of foodstuffs -- Ch. 14. Nutrition: general aspects -- Ch. 15. Nutrition: energy -- Ch. 16. Nutrition: proteins -- Ch. 17. Nutrition: lipids and carbohydrates -- Ch. 18. Nutrition: obesity and starvation -- Ch. 19. Nutrition: vitamins -- Ch. 20. Nutrition: inorganic constituents of the diet -- Ch. 21. Nutrition: iron and iron metabolism -- Ch. 22. Nutrition: folate and vitamin B[subscript 12] -- Ch. 23. Blood: metabolism in the red blood cell -- Ch. 24. Blood: blood clotting -- Ch. 25. The liver -- Ch. 26. The kidney -- Ch. 27. Muscle -- Ch. 28. The endocrine tissues -- Ch. 29. Bone -- Ch. 30. The brain -- Ch. 31. The eye -- Ch. 32. The immune system -- Ch. 33. Free radicals in health and disease -- Ch. 34. Toxicology: general principles -- Ch. 35. Toxic metals -- Ch. 36. Metabolism of foreign compounds -- Ch. 37. Multiple environmental challenges: cancer -- Ch. 38. Recombinant DNA and genetic engineering -- Ch. 39. Biochemical principles underlying chemotherapy and drug resistance -- Ch. 40. Metabolism in injury and trauma -- Ch. 41. Diabetes mellitus -- Ch. 42. Asthma -- Ch. 43. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- Index.
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Rev. ed. of: Biochemical basis of medicine. 1985.

Thomas's name appears first on the earlier edition.

Includes index.

Preface to the third edition -- Preface to the second edition -- Preface to the first edition -- Acknowledgements -- Ch. 1. What happens where in the living mammalian cell? -- Ch. 2. Roles of extracellular and intracellular membranes: membrane structure and membrane transport -- Ch. 3. Biochemical communication -- Ch. 4. Cellular organelles: the nucleus -- Ch. 5. Cellular organelles: mitochondria and energy conservation -- Ch. 6. The cytosol -- Ch. 7. Cellular organelles: the endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi apparatus -- Ch. 8. Cellular organelles: lysosomes -- Ch. 9. Plasma glucose and its regulation -- Ch. 10. Plasma lipids and their regulation -- Ch. 11. Plasma amino acids and utilization of amino acids by the tissues -- Ch. 12. Plasma calcium and phosphate homeostasis -- Ch. 13. Digestion and absorption of foodstuffs -- Ch. 14. Nutrition: general aspects -- Ch. 15. Nutrition: energy -- Ch. 16. Nutrition: proteins -- Ch. 17. Nutrition: lipids and carbohydrates -- Ch. 18. Nutrition: obesity and starvation -- Ch. 19. Nutrition: vitamins -- Ch. 20. Nutrition: inorganic constituents of the diet -- Ch. 21. Nutrition: iron and iron metabolism -- Ch. 22. Nutrition: folate and vitamin B[subscript 12] -- Ch. 23. Blood: metabolism in the red blood cell -- Ch. 24. Blood: blood clotting -- Ch. 25. The liver -- Ch. 26. The kidney -- Ch. 27. Muscle -- Ch. 28. The endocrine tissues -- Ch. 29. Bone -- Ch. 30. The brain -- Ch. 31. The eye -- Ch. 32. The immune system -- Ch. 33. Free radicals in health and disease -- Ch. 34. Toxicology: general principles -- Ch. 35. Toxic metals -- Ch. 36. Metabolism of foreign compounds -- Ch. 37. Multiple environmental challenges: cancer -- Ch. 38. Recombinant DNA and genetic engineering -- Ch. 39. Biochemical principles underlying chemotherapy and drug resistance -- Ch. 40. Metabolism in injury and trauma -- Ch. 41. Diabetes mellitus -- Ch. 42. Asthma -- Ch. 43. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- Index.

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