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Medical Chemistry and Biochemistry 2

Class at First Faculty of Medicine |
B01604

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Introduction to physical, inorganic, and organic chemistry – principles of chemical processes, structures and characteristics of substances that are present in the human body under physiological and pathological conditions and general principles of their metabolism, basics of the metabolism of xenobiotics.

Overview of metabolic pathways – turnover of body fuels, interplay of their metabolic pathways during production, storage, and interconversion of energy and synthesis and degradation of structural and informational molecules.

Molecular biology principles of body functions – dynamics of information molecules, intracellular, intercellular, and systemic mechanisms of metabolic regulations, illustrative examples from the biochemistry of organ systems and molecular defects leading to human diseases.

Concepts of bioanalytical approaches – methods for the detection of biochemical and molecular biology markers in human medicine