Textbook of biochemistry / Edward Staunton West, Wilbert R. Todd, Howard S. Mason and John T. Van Bruggen.
By: West, Edward Staunton [author.].
Contributor(s): Todd, Wilbert R. (Wilbert Remington) [author.] | Mason, Howard S [author.] | Van Bruggen, John T [author.].
Material type: BookPublisher: London : Macmillan Co., 1966Copyright date: ©1966Edition: Fourth edition.Description: xiv, 1502 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeSubject(s): Biochemistry | Clinical biochemistryDDC classification: 612.015Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 612.015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00043579 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Electrolytic dissociation and activity -- Acids, bases and buffers -- Osmotic pressure -- The colloidal state and membrane phenomena -- Lipids -- Carbohydrates or the saccharides -- Proteins -- Nucleic acids and nucleoproteins -- General composition of the body -- Enzymes -- Digestion of food -- Absorption from the intestine -- Detoxication in the body, the metabolism of foreign compounds -- Blood and other body fluids -- Chemistry of respiration and gas transport -- Renal function, acid-base balance, electrolyte and water balance -- The vitamins -- Introduction to intermediary metabolism -- Bioenergetics -- Biological oxidation-reduction -- Energy metabolism -- Lipid metabolism -- Carbohydrate metabolism -- Protein metabolism -- Metabolism of nucleoproteins and their components. Synthesis of nucleic acids -- Composition and metabolism of specialized tissues -- Nutritional aspects of proteins and amino acids -- Nutritional aspects of the lipids and the carbohydrates -- The metabolism of the inorganic elements -- Foods -- Antimetabolic agents and other drugs -- Composition of urine -- The hormones.