Table of Content
APPLIED BIOCHEMISTRY
- Carbohydrates
- Digestion, absorption and metabolism of carbohydrates and related disorders
- Regulation of blood glucose
- Diabetes Mellitus type 1 and type 2, symptoms, complications & management in brief
- Investigations of Diabetes Mellitus
- OGTT Indications, Procedure, Interpretation and types of GTT curve
- Mini GTT, extended GTT, GCT, IV GTT
- HbA1c (Only definition) Hypoglycemia Definition & causes
- Lipids
- Fatty acids – Definition, classification
- Definition & Clinical significance of MUFA & PUFA, Essential fatty acids, Trans fatty acids
- Digestion, absorption & metabolism of lipids & related disorders
- Compounds formed from cholesterol
- Ketone bodies (name, types & significance only)
- Lipoproteins – types & functions (metabolism not required)
- Lipid profile
- Atherosclerosis (in brief)
III. Proteins
- Classification of amino acids based on nutrition, metabolic rate with examples
- Digestion, absorption & metabolism of protein & related disorders
- Biologically important compounds synthesized from various amino acids (only names)
- In born errors of amino acid metabolism only aromatic amino acids (in brief)
- Plasma protein – types, function & normal values
- Causes of proteinuria, hypoproteinemia, hyper-gamma globinemia
- Principle of electrophoresis, normal & abnormal electrophoretic patterns (in brief)
- Clinical Enzymology
- Isoenzymes Definition & properties
- Enzymes of diagnostic importance in
- Liver Diseases – ALT, AST, ALP, GGT
- Myocardial infarction – CK, cardiac troponins, AST, LDH
- Muscle diseases – CK, Aldolase
- Bone diseases – ALP
- Prostate cancer – PSA, ACP
- Acid base maintenance
- pH – definition, normal value
- Regulation of blood pH – blood buffer, respiratory & renal
- ABG – normal values
- Acid base disorders – types, definition & causes
- Heme catabolism
- Heme degradation pathway
- Jaundice – type, causes, urine & blood investigations (van den berg test)
VII. Organ function tests (biochemical parameters & normal values only)
VIII. Immunochemistry
- Structure & functions of immunoglobulin
- Investigations & interpretation – ELISA
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