BIOCHEM LEC UNIT 1 Flashcards
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Biochemistry
the study of the chemical substances found in living organisms and the chemical interactions of these substances with each other
A chemical substance found within a living organism
biochemical substance
Bioinorganic substances
include water and inorganic salts
Bioorganic substances
include carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids.
Substances that do not contain carbon
Bioinorganic Substances
Substances that contain carbon
Bioorganic Substances
Biochemistry related to human health and disease
Medical biochemistry
A field that focuses on the methodology and interpretation of chemical tests performed to support diagnosis and treatment.
Clinical Chemistry
Addresses the functioning of traditional and pathologic organisms from a
biochemical purpose of view
Medical biochemistry
Trained in the operation and management of clinical biochemistry laboratories and acts as an authority all told aspects of their use.
medical chemist
Directs clinical laboratories, consults, diagnoses and treats patients with a range of metabolic disorders and biochemical abnormalities.
Medical chemist
Involves how drugs affect the biochemistry and metabolism of human
health and sickness.
Pharmaceutical biochemistry
Consists the data of biochemistry & chemistry & applies to the production of the
many helpful medicines.
Pharmaceutical chemistry
science of medicine, their clinical uses and therefore
the study of their adverse effects on living organisms.
Pharmaceutical chemistry
Biochemistry of the nucleic acids lies at the heart of genetics; in turn, the use of genetic
approaches has been critical for elucidating many areas of biochemistry
Genetics
The science relating the effects of genes on our response to drugs. It is applied in
diagnostic clinical biochemistry laboratories.
Pharmacogenetics
The study of body function, overlaps with biochemistry almost completely.
Physiology
Employs numerous biochemical techniques, and many immunologic approaches have
found wide use by biochemists.
Immunology
Provides qualitative and quantitative analysis of biological fluids such as blood, serum or
plasma, urine, or tissues for specific chemical constituents or physiologic processes useful for evaluation of immune factors causing disease and assessment of transplant immunosuppression.
Biochemistry
Knowledge of biochemistry and physiology; in particular, most drugs are metabolized by enzyme-catalyzed reactions.
Pharmacology
Poisons act on biochemical reactions or processes.
Toxicology
Main use of toxicology
(a) routine examination of blood chemistry, etc.;
(b) metabolic
fate of poisons;
(c) measurements which define at an early stage changes which indicate effects on
particular organs;
(d) studies to elucidate mechanisms of toxicity.
Biochemical approaches are being used increasingly to study basic aspects of pathology (the study of disease), such as inflammation, cell injury, and cancer.
Pathology
The two major concerns for workers in the health sciences—and particularly physicians—are the understanding and maintenance of health and the understanding and effective treatment of diseases.
Medicine
