Syllabus
Winter semester:
Chemistry and medicine
Basics of laboratory medicine
Important organic analytes in body fluids
Important organic compounds in biochemistry
Structure, chemical and biological properties of saccharides
Structure, chemical and biological properties of lipids
Structure, chemical and biological properties of amino acids, peptides and proteins
Summer semester:
Introduction to biochemistry. Enzymes. Gain of an energy in the cell
Carbohydrate metabolism. Glycemia. Diabetes mellitus
Lipid metabolism. Lipoproteins. Ketone bodies.
Metabolism of amino acids and proteins. Ammonia detoxication.
Principle of muscle contraction. Energy metabolism of muscle cell.
Hormonal regulation of metabolic processes
Basics of clinical biochemistry
Annotation
Lectures are focused on basic knowledge of chemical bonds, chemical reactions, properties of solutions and analysis of biological material. The teaching also includes the basic overview of natural products and their characterictics.
In summer semester lessons are continue on function of an eucaryotic cell. Function and diagnostic importance of enzymes are also explained. These concepts are followed by a summary of digestion and metabolism of basic nutrients. Principles of hormonal regulations and an effect of nutrition are included.