Developments in biochemistry have contributed immensely to the rate at which medical knowledge has expended in recent years. Following the GMC recommendations regarding undergraduate medical education, Biochemistry for Clinical Medicine integrates, in a single volume, all aspects of biochemistry required by a medical student, with a special focus on information specific to medicine as opposed to laboratory-based biochemistry. The first section of the book provides an understanding of basic cell biology and the critical concepts of membrane transport, cellular energetics, information storage, transmission and expression, as well as describing the essential chemistry and metabolism of cellular biomolecules and the clinical conditions that arise from disturbances in their metabolism. The second section adopts a systems-based approach to present clinical biochemistry in an easily readable and concise manner, using tables and clear diagrams to summarise important facts, as well as providing information on the biochemical basis of good nutrition.

1. Cells and organelles 2. Carbohydrates 3. Carbohydrate metabolism and related disorders 4. Cellular energetics and energy production 5. Lipids 6. Lipid metabolism and related disorders 7. Proteins (+ proteins as functional units) 8. Metabolism of nitrogen containing compounds 9. Information storage and transmission 10. Information expression and proteins as functional units 11. Communication between cells and tissues in the body 12. Sodium, water and potassium 13. Hydrogen ion homeostasis 14. The cardiovascular system 15. Haemoglobin, porphyrias and iron 16. The liver 17. Gastrointestinal system 18. The kidney 19. Calcium, phosphate, magnesium and bone 20. The hypothalamic and pituitary glands 21. The thyroid gland 22. The adrenal glands 23. The gonads 24. Metabolic aspect of malignancy 25. Nutrition and nutritional disorders.