Purine and Urate Metabolism

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Purine and Urate Metabolism Abnormalities of purine metabolism are often found in clinical practice, notably hyperuricaemia and gout. After exploring purine metabolic pathways, this chapter discusses the various disorders of…

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Proteins in Plasma and Urine

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Proteins in Plasma and Urine PLASMA PROTEINS Plasma albumin and total protein are often included as part of a biochemistry department’s assay profile, and other more specialized plasma proteins such…

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Plasma Enzymes in Diagnosis (Clinical Enzymology)

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Plasma Enzymes in Diagnosis (Clinical Enzymology) This chapter discusses the principles of clinical enzymology, which have already been encountered in some of the preceding chapters. Enzymology can be defined as…

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Liver Disorders and Gallstones

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Liver Disorders and Gallstones This chapter looks at the chemical pathology of liver and gall bladder disorders. These are common in clinical practice, and liver function tests constitute one of…

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The Gastrointestinal Tract

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The Gastrointestinal Tract Gastrointestinal disorders present relatively commonly to doctors, and biochemical laboratory tests have important roles in their investigation. This chapter looks at gastrointestinal pathophysiology and how chemical pathology…

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Vitamins, Trace Elements and Metals

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Vitamins, Trace Elements and Metals This chapter looks at vitamins and trace elements, and might usefully be read in conjunction with Chapter 14 (Nutrition). It also discusses certain elemental metals…

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Plasma Lipids and Lipoproteins

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Plasma Lipids and Lipoproteins Lipids play a critical role in almost all aspects of biological life – they are structural components in cells and are involved in metabolic and hormonal…

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Nutrition

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Nutrition This chapter gives an outline of certain nutritional abnormalities and how they overlap with aspects of chemical pathology. It is not, however, a substitute for a nutrition textbook. The…

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Carbohydrate Metabolism

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Carbohydrate Metabolism This chapter discusses carbohydrate metabolism and its abnormalities, with emphasis on diabetes mellitus and hypoglycaemia. In the next decade it is predicted that there will be about 250…

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Thyroid Function

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Thyroid Function It is important to understand thyroid biochemistry, as it helps to interpret thyroid function tests, which are among the most common endocrine requests in clinical practice. Thyroid disease…

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