Hypercalcemia: Treatment, Pathophysiology, Symptoms
What is hypercalcemia? Hypercalcemia is the most common metabolic disorder in patients with cancer and has a prevalence of 15-20 cases per 100000 persons and in which the calcium level…
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Muscular Dystrophy: Types, Symptoms, Diagnosis-NotesMed
What is Muscular Dystrophy? Muscular Dystrophy is a heterogeneous group of inherited disorders and more often presenting in childhood. The progressive degeneration or degradation of muscle fibers leads to muscle…
Protein synthesis-Steps, Codon, Genetic Code-NotesMed
Overview of protein synthesis The pathway of protein synthesis is called translation because the language of the nucleotide course on the mRNA is translated into the language of the amino…
Hexose Monophosphate Shunt Pathway-Overview/NotesMed
Overview of Hexose monophosphate shunt pathway Hexose Monophosphate Shunt (HMP) Pathway is also known as the pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) or phosphogluconate pathway or the pentose shunt. An alternative pathway…
Vitamins-A: Different form, Function, Abnormalties-NotesMed
What are Vitamins? The vitamins are an essential, non-caloric, organic nutrient essential in minute amounts in the diet and were discovered at the beginning of the 20th century. Vitamins may…
The Citric Acid Cycle: Functions, Reactions, Regulation, Inhibitors
What is the citric acid cycle? The citric acid cycle or TCA cycle is the last common pathway for the oxidation of different fuel molecules amino acids, fatty acids, and…
𝜶-oxidation of fatty acids: Refsum’s disease, ω-oxidation
𝜶-oxidation of fatty acids: 𝜶-oxidation of fatty acids are specialized pathways. α –oxidation of fatty acids is the removal of one carbon at a time from the carboxyl end of…
β-oxidation of fatty acids: Oxidation of palmitoyl CoA
β-Oxidation fatty acids: β-Oxidation of fatty acids may be defined as the oxidation of fatty acids on the β -carbon atom and results in the sequential removal of a two-carbon…
The lipids: Digestion, Absorption, Reaction-NotesMed
Dietary fat (the lipids)Composition In the lipids, more than 85-95% are triglycerides (Triacylglycerols). The other includes Cholesterol, Cholesteryl esters, phospholipids, essential unsaturated fatty acids, and fat-soluble vitamins, etc. Facts about…
Glycolysis Pathway: Steps, Regulation, Inhibitors-NotesMed
Introduction of Glycolysis: The term glycolysis is derived from the word 'glykys' meaning sweet or sugar, an older term for glucose + lysis- degradation. Glycolysis is defined as the sequence…