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CHAPTER 1 STRUCTURES & FUNCTIONS OF PROTEINS
1 AMINO ACIDS & PEPTIDES
2 PROTEINS: PRIMARY STRUCTURE
3 PROTEINS: HIGHER ORDERS OF STRUCTURE
4 PROTEINS: MYOGLOBIN & HEMOGLOBIN
CHAPTER 2 STRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONS OF NUCLEIC ACIDS
1 CHEMICAL COMPONENTS OF NUCLEIC ACIDS
2 DNA CARRIES THE GENETIC INFORMATION
3 CHEMICAL NATURE OF RNA DIFFERS FROM THAT OF DNA
4 ESSENCIAL PROPERTIES OF NUCLEIC ACIDS
5 BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS OF NUCLEIC ACIDS
CHAPTER 3 STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF ENZYME
1 GENERAL PROPERTIES OF ENZYME
2 MECHANISM OF ACTION OF ENZYMES AND COENZYMES
3 KINETICS OF ENZYMATIC REACTIONS
4 REGULATION OF ENZYME ACTIVITIES
CHAPTER 4 METABOLISM OF CARBOHYDRATES
1 CARBOHYDRATES & ITS DIGESTION/ABSORPTION
2 GLYCOLYSIS
3 AEROBIC OXIDATION OF GLUCOSE
4 PENTOSE PHOSPHATE PATHWAY & OTHER PATHWAYS OF HEXOSE METABOLISM
5 METABOLISM OF GLYCOGEN
6 GLUCONEOGENESIS & THE CONTROL OF BLOOD GLUCOSE
CHAPTER 5 METABOLISM OF LIPIDS
1 LIPIDS OF PHYSIOLOGIC SIGNIFICANCE
2 OXIDATION OF FATTY ACIDS
3 BIOSYNTHESIS OF FATTY ACIDS
4 METABOLISM OF TRIGLYCERIDES
5 METABOLISM OF CHOLESTEROL
6 METABOLISM OF PHOSPHOLIPIDS
7 LIPID TRANSPORT & STORAGE
CHAPTER 6 BIOENERGETICS
1 BIOENERGETICS: THE ROLE OF ATP
2 BIOLOGIC OXIDATION
3 THE MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATORY CHAIN & OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION
CHAPTER 7 METABOLISM OF AMINO ACID
1 THE NUTRITIONAL VALUE， DIGESTION & ABSORPTION OF PROTEIN
2 CATABOLISM OF PROTEINS & AMINO ACIDS
3 CATABOLISM OF THE CARBON SKELETONS OF AMINO ACIDS
4 CONVERSION OF AMINO ACIDS TO SPECILIZED PRODUCTS
CHAPTER 8 METABOLISM OF PURINE & PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOTIDES
1 BIOSYNTHESIS OF PURINE NUCLEOTIDES
2 DEGRADATION OF PURINE NUCLEOTIDES
3 BIOSYNTHESIS OF PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOTIDES
4 CATABOLISM OF PYRIMIDINES PRODUCES WATER-SOLUBLE METABOLITES
CHAPTER 9 DNA REPLICATION & REPAIR
1 DNA REPLICATION
2 DNA REPAIR
CHAPTER 10 RNA SYNTHESIS, PROCESSING & MODIFICATION
1 RNA SYNTHESIS
2 RNA PROCESSING & MODIFICATION
CHAPTER 11 REGULATION OF GENE EXPRESSION
BIOMEDICAL IMPORTANCE
1 OUTLINE OF GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION
2 GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION IN PROKARYOTIC
3 GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION IN EUKARYOTES
CHAPTER 12 PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS
BIOMEDICAL IMPORTANCE
1 SYSTEM OF PROTEIN SYNTHESIS
2 PROTEIN SYNTHESIS CAN BE DESCRIBED IN THREE PHASES: INITIATION, ELONGA TION & TERMINATION
3 BIOMEDICINE SIGNIFICANCY OF PROTEIN SYNTHESIS
4 INTRACELLULAR TRAFFIC & SORTING OF PROTEINS
5 PROTEIN FOLDING AND DEGRA- DATION AS WELL AS ASSAMBLY OF MEMBRANCE
CHAPTER 13 ESSENCIAL TECHNIQUES FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
1 RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY INVOLVES ISOLATION AND MANIPULATION OF DNA
2 PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY ARE NUMEROUS
CHAPTER 14 BIOCHEMISTRY OF EXTRACELLULAR & INTRACELLULAR COMMUNI-CATION
1 MEMBRANES: STRUCTURE & FUNCTION
2 THE DIVERSITY OF THE ENDOCRINE SYSTEM
3 HORMONE ACTION & SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION
CHAPTER 15 NUTRIENTS: VITAMINS & MINERALS
1 LIPID-SOLUBLE VITAMINS
2 WATER-SOLUBLE VITAMINS
CHAPTER 16 FREE RADICALS AND ANTIOXIDANT NUTRIENTS
1 FREE RADICALS
2 ANTIOXIDANT NUTRIENTS
CHAPTER 17 GLYCOPROTEINS
1 OVERVIEW OF GLYCOPROTEIN
2 STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF GLYCAN IN GLYCOPROTEIN
CHAPTER 18 THE EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX
1 STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF COLLAGEN & ELASTIN
2 STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF FIBRONECTIN & LAMIN
3 STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF GLYCOSAMINOGLYCANS & PROTEOGLYCANS
4 BONE AND CARTILAGE
CHAPTER 19 PLASMA PROTEINS & IMMUNOGLOBULINS
1 THE FUNCTIONS OF THE MAJOR PLASMA PROTEINS
2 PLASMA PROTEINS INVOLVED IN MAINTAINING IRON HOMEOSTASIS
3 PLASMA IMMUNOGLOBULINS
CHAPTER 20 METABOLISM OF XENOBIOTICS
1 INTRODUCTION
2 BIOTRANSFORMATION
CHAPTER 21 CANCER: AN OVERVIEW
1 INTRODUCTION
2 ONCOGENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENES AND GROWTH FACTORS
3