Salient Features

• This complete, comprehensive, easily understandable and exam oriented book helps us not only in understanding the basic functions of living body at cellular and molecular level, but also finding remedies for variety of ailments that afflict human being.
• Entire text has been rewritten, simplified and conveniently divided into thirty-five chapters that encompass the entire syllabus recommended by the medicalcouncil of India (MCI).
• Language used is clear and simple that enables the students to understand and grasp the fundamentals and its applications.
• Additional information has been provided in the form of diagrams, tables and flowcharts to understand the topics in its proper perspective.

Table Of Contents

• Chapter 1: Cell and Membrane Transport
• Chapter 2: Carbohydrate Chemistry
• Chapter 3: Chemistry of Lipids
• Chapter 4: Chemistry of Proteins
• Chapter 5: Plasma proteins and Immunoglobulins
• Chapter 6: Enzymes
• Chapter 7: Vitamins
• Chapter 8: Chemistry of Hemoglobin
• Chapter 9: Chemistry of Nucleic Acid
• Chapter 10: Biological Oxidation
• Chapter 11: Nutrition
• Chapter 12: Carbohydrate Metabolism
• Chapter 13: Lipid Metabolism
• Chapter 14: Protein Metabolism
• Chapter 15: Integration of Metabolism and Metabolism in Starvation
• Chapter 16: Water Metabolism
• Chapter 17: Mineral Metabolism
• Chapter 18: Hemoglobin Metabolism
• Chapter 19: Nucleic Acid Metabolism
• Chapter 20: Replication, Transcription and Translation
• Chapter 21: Regulation of Gene Expression and Mutation
• Chapter 22: Genetic Engineering
• Chapter 23: Mechanism of Hormone Action
• Chapter 24: Acid-base Balance
• Chapter 25: Organ Function Tests
• Chapter 26: Radioisotopes in Medicine
• Chapter 27: Free Radicals and antioxidants
• Chapter 28: Detoxication (Metabolism of Xenobiotics)
• Chapter 29: Cancer
• Chapter 30: Environmental Biochemistry
• Chapter 31: Biomedical Waste Management
• Chapter 32: Connective Tissue
• Chapter 33: Muscle
• Chapter 34: Neurotransmitters
• Chapter 35: Laboratory Investigation Techniques