Background: Genomics is an interdisciplinary field of science focusing on the structure, function, evolution, mapping, and editing of genomes. The milestone discovery of the human…
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GLYCOGEN: Glycogen is the major storage carbohydrate in animals, corresponding to starch in plants; it is a branched polymer of α-D-glucose. It is stored mainly…
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Ketone bodies, produced mainly in the mitochondria of liver cells from acetyl-CoA enter blood, provide much of the energy to heart tissue, and during starvation…
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The Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) is an invitro method of DNA amplification that can rapidly clone (amplify) DNA samples as small as a single molecule.…
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Enzymes are the extremely selective biocatalysts synthesized by living cells. Therapeutic enzymes are those enzymes which can be used medically either isolately or adjunctly with…
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Isoenzymes: Also called isozymes Are multiple forms of an enzyme that catalyzes the same reaction Arise through gene duplication Differ in their physical and chemical…
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Introduction, cause, symptoms, diagnosis, misdiagnosis and treatments of CPT I deficiency Definition: CPT I (Carnitine palmitoyltransferase I) deficinecy is a rare autosomal recessive metabolic disorder…
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Causes, effects, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of hypokalemia Around 95% of the body’s K+ is found inside cells and remaining in the blood. It is…
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