Textbooks of biochemistry

The following comprehensive textbooks are suitable as introductions into biochemistry, and they allow a graded approach to more detailed levels of coverage. 

Reginald H. Garrett and Charles M. Grisham (1999) Biochemistry. Saunders College Publishing, Fort Worth, FL 

Albert L. Lehninger, David L Nelson and Michael L Cox (2000) Principles of Biochemistry 3rd Edition. Worth Publishers, New York. 

Christopher K. Mathews, K.E. van Holde and Kevin G. Ahern (2000) Biochemistry 3rd Edition. Addison-Wesley, San Francisco, CA. 

Donald Voet, Judith G. Voet and Charlotte Pratt (1999) Fundamentals of Biochemistry. John Wiley Sons, New York. 

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T. M. Devlin, ed.. Textbook of Biochemistry with Clinical Correlations,]oha Wiey Sons, Inc., New York, 1986. 

Hopfer U [1992] Digestion and absorption of basic nutritional constituents. In Devlin TM (ed.), Textbook of Biochemistry, 3rd ed. Wiley-Lise, New York, Chichester, Brisbane, Toronto, Singapore, pp. 1059-1092... 

Coomes WW (1997) In Devlin TM (ed) Textbook of biochemistry with chnical correlation. Wiley-Liss, New York, p 445... 

Devlin TM, editor. Textbook of biochemistry with clinical correlations. 5th ed. New York Wiley-Liss, 2002. 

Figure 9.7. Diagrammatic representation of the fibrinogen molecule and its conversion to the soft clot of fibrin. Reproduced (in modified form) by permission from Textbook of Biochemistry with Clinical Correlations (3rd Ed.) Devlin (1992). This material is used by permission of John Wiley Sons, Inc.

Becker, R. (2000). Thrombolytic and Antithrombolytic Therapy. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Devlin, T. (1992). Textbook of Biochemistry with Clinical Correlations, 3rd edn. Wiley-Liss, New York. Goodnight, S. (2001). Disorders of Hemostasis and Thrombosis. McGraw Hill, New York. 

Enzymology is a large and complex subdivision of biochemistry, and no attempt will be made to cover it in this book. The reader who requires a review of enzyme kinetics and mechanisms is referred to the many currently available and excellent textbooks of biochemistry. 

Bove KE, Daugherty CC, Tyson W, Mierau G, Heubi JE, Balistreri WF, Setchell KDR (2000) Bile acids synthetic defect and liver disease. Pediatr Dev Pathol 3 1-16 Hopfer U (2002) Digestion and absorption of basic nutritional constituents. In Devlin T (ed) Textbook of Biochemistry with Clinical Correlations. Wiley- Liss, New York, pp 1110-1113 Clark ML and Harries JT (1975) In McColl I, Sladen GE (eds) Intestinal Absorption in Man. Academic Press, New York, p. 195... 

Litwack, G. Schmidt, R.J. (2001) Biochemistry of hormones I polypeptide hormones. In Textbook of Biochemistry with Clinical Correlations, 5th edn (Devlin, T.M., ed.), pp. 905-958. John Wiley Sons, Inc., New York. 

The student s first exposure to biochemistry is probably a lecture course accompanied by the reading of a general textbook of biochemistry. By providing an in-depth survey of biochemistry, textbooks allow students to build a strong foundation of important principles and concepts. By the time most books are in print, the information is 1 to 2 years old, but textbooks still should be considered the starting point for mastery of the fundamentals of biochemistry. 

T Devlin, Editor, Textbook of Biochemistry with Clinical Correlations, 4th ed (1997), John Wiley Sons (New York), pp 1127, 1098 Vitamin C and cholesterol R Eitenmiller and W Landen, Vitamin Analysis for the Health and Food Sciences (1998), CRC Press (Boca Raton, FL) Review of vitamin measurement R Garrett and C Grisham, Biochemistry, 2nd ed (1999), W B Saunders (Orlando, FL), pp 599-600, 840-846 An introduction to vitamin C and cholesterol B Halhwell, Trends Biochem. Sci. 24, 255-259 (1999) Vitamin C Poison, Prophylactic or Panacea5 ... 

To determine KM values, conduct rate measurements (v) with at least four different concentrations of any given substrate, [S], and then analyze the data by any suitable kinetic plot such as the Lineweaver-Burke plot or the direct-linear plot (refer to any standard textbook of biochemistry for more information). 

Montgomery, R. T. W. Conway, and A. A. Spector, Biochem- Devlin, T. M. (ed.). Textbook of Biochemistry with Clinical istry, A Case-Oriented Approach, 5th ed. St. Louis C. V. Correlations, 3rd ed. New York Wiley-Liss, 1992. 

Figure 6.1. Structure of DNA double helix. DNA double helix of 20 A diameter with its two strands twisted around each other. The nitrogen-containing bases are perpendicular to the helical axis and about 3.4A apart from their next base of the same strand. The bases from the two strands opposite each other form hydrogen bonds and help to stabilize the helix. The helix makes a complete turn every 34 A. (Reproduced from Textbook of Biochemistry with Clinical Correlations, T. M. Devlin, ed., Wiley, New York, 1982.)...

There are many comprehensive textbooks of biochemistry and molecular biology and no one book that can satisfy all needs. Different readers subjectively prefer different textbooks and hence we do not feel it would be particularly helpful to recommend one book over another. Rather we have listed some of the leading books which we know from experience have served their student readers well. 

Devlin, Thomas M., ed. (2002). Textbook of Biochemistry With Clinical Correlations, 5th edition. New York Wiley-Liss. 

These last two sections have necessarily been brief, but they provide some of the general principles governing the structure of proteins and the action of enzymes. A textbook of biochemistry should be consulted for more details. 

From its inception, this book was designed to meet this growing need. Both the first edition, published in 1987, and the expanded, revised 1997 edition have served effectively as companion texts to many of the standard textbooks of biochemistry, particularly at institutions that have retained much of the traditional lecture format. At the same time, experience has shown that the 8- to 14-page chapters that constitute this collection of actual case reports are sufficiently comprehensive and self-contained to stand on their own. As such, the book has been and can be used as the primary resource in biochemistry of disease courses at the advanced undergraduate level or in masters or doctorate graduate programs. 

Many of these features are evident in the three-dimensional structures of ribonuclease and myoglobin shown in Figure II-3. To understand the common and distinguishing features of the secondary and tertiary structure of various proteins as determined by x-ray crystallographic analysis, the student should study several examples in standard textbooks of biochemistry. 

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