Clinical Studies in Medical Biochemistry

PART I: PROTEIN STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION; D.W. Mercer & M.A. Varat: creatine kinase isoenzymes and the diagnosis of myocardial infarction; J.U. Balis, S.A. Shelley & K.S. Kanarek: hyaline membrane disease of the newborn; D.W. Mercer & T.S. Talamo: the role of biochemical markers in the management of cancer; R.F. Ebert & W.R. Bell: congenital dysfibrinogenemia; S. Charache & S.L. Phillips: sickle cell anaemia; R. Jagus, J.N. Dowling, J. Moss, & M. Vaughan: bacterial toxins: diphtheris and cholera; PART II: METABOLISM AND ENERGETICS; I.R. Holzman & J.R. Milley: neonatal hypoglycaemia and the importance of gluconeogenesis; J.H. Collins: pyruvate dehydrogenase complex deficiency and congenital lactic acidosis; E. Beutler: glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency; J.G. Thoene & D.N. Buchanan: biotin and multiple carboxylase deficiency; H.S. Paul: systemic carniture deficiency - a treatable disorder; A.E. Kitabchi & J.N. Fisher: diabetes mellitus; PART III: SYNTHESIS AND CATABOLISM OF COMPLEX MOLECULES; S.J. Schwarzenberg & H.L. Sharp: alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency; B.F. Mandell: mannose-6-phosphate receptors and I-cell disease; K.L. LaMarco & R.H. Glew: Gaucher's disease - a Sphingolipidosis; A.T. Remaley & K.L. LaMarco: atypical phenylketonuria: a dihydropteridine reductase deficiency; R. E. Pyeritz: Marfan syndrome and homocystinuria: pleiotropy, variability and genetic heterogeneity; G.P. Beliveau & S.W. Brusilow: treatment of inborn errors of urea synthesis; PART IV: STEROIDS; J.J.S. Chen & S. Margolis: low density lipoprotein receptors and familial hypercholesterolaemia; R. W. Chesney & S. Dabbagh: rickets caused by a deficiency of vitamin D; F. Short & V.H.T. James: Cushing's syndrome; PART V: ASPECTS OF INFLAMMATION AND PHARMACOLOGY; R.T. Holman & A.B. Christophe: human essential fatty acid deficiencies of dietary and metabolic origin; P.S. Creticos & S.P. Peters: Anaphylaxis; A. Segal: chronic granulomatus disease and cytochrome 6-245; A.P. Shapiro: inhibitors of angiotensin converting enzyme in the management of hypertension.