Wills' Biochemical Basis Of Medicine

In this new edition the authors have substantially rewritten text and added new chapters on recombinant DNA and genetic engineering, free radicals in health and disease, metabolism in injury and trauma, diabetes mellitus and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Outstanding features: * an integrated systems approach to biochemistry * an up-to-date view of the relation of modern nutritional thought to medicine * a group of inter-related chapters on health, disease and the environment * a series of chapters which focus on a disease or group of related diseases, bringing together information from a wide range of sources. A thorough understanding of biochemistry is increasingly important to the practice of clinical medicine. This comprehensive book provides a text that sets biochemistry in the context of systems teaching for students in basic medical and dental sciences, the clinical sciences and allied health sciences.