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The Twenty-Eighth Edition has undergone sweeping changes - including a conversion to full-color artwork and every chapter being substantially revised and updated - all to reflect the latest advances in knowledge and technology and to make the text as up-to-date and clinically relevant as possible. Combining outstanding full-color illustrations with integrated coverage of biochemical diseases and clinical information, Harper's Illustrated Biochemistry offers an organization and clarity not found in any other text on the subject.
Striking just the right balance between detail and brevity, Harpers Illustrated Biochemistry is essential for USMLE review and is the single best reference for learning the clinical relevance of a biochemistry topic.
NEW to this edition:
Every chapter now begins with a Summary of the Biomedical Importance of its contents and concludes with a Summary reviewing the topics covered
Two all-new chapters: Free Radicals and Antioxidant Nutrients and Biochemical Case Histories which offers an extensive presentation of 16 pathophysical conditions
An Expanded Appendix containing a list of important biochemistry websites, data bases, and online journals
NEW or updated coverage of important topics such as: The influence of the Human Genome Project on the; biomedical fields; Computer-aided drug delivery; The attachment of influenza virus to human cells; Next Generation Gene Sequencing platforms; Methods of assaying enzymes; Advanced glycation end-products and their importance in diabetes mellitus; The major challenges facing medicine
Biographical note
David A. Bender, PhD,
Sub-Dean University College Medical School,
Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry,
Department of Structural and Molecular Biology and
Division of Medical Education,
University College London
Kathleen M. Botham, PhD, DSc,
Professor of Biochemistry, Royal Veterinary
College, University of London
Daryl K. Granner, MD,
Emeritus Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
and Medicine,
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
Peter L. Gross MD, MSc, FRCP(C),
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine,
McMaster University
Frederick W. Keeley, PhD,
Associate Director and Senior Scientist, Research Institute,
Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, and Professor,
Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto
Peter J. Kennelly, PhD,
Professor and Head, Department of Biochemistry,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,
Blacksburg, Virginia
Robert K. Murray, MD, PhD,
Professor (Emeritus) of Biochemistry,
University of Toronto
Margaret L. Rand, PhD,
Associate Senior Scientist, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto,
and Professor, Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology
and Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto
Victor W. Rodwell, PhD,
Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette,
Indiana
P. Anthony Weil, PhD,
Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics,
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine,
Nashville, Tennessee
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