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BIOCHEMISTRY
Topic list of End-Semester Exam Faculty of Pharmacy
2011/12 2nd semester
- Thermodynamics of biochemical pathways
- Functions of proteins in the living organism, the chemical nature of proteins
- Formation and characterization of three dimensional structure of proteins
- Molecular mechanism of enzyme catalysis
- Coenzymes and their actions
- Classification of enzymes
- Isoenzymes, multienzyme systems, units of enzyme activity, enzyme regulation
- Kinetics of enzyme reactions
- Glycolysis and its regulation
- Glycogenesis and glycogenolysis , their regulation
- Gluconeogenesis, hexose monophosphate shunt
- Relationship between the carbohydrate metabolism and other metabolisms
- Degradation of fatty acids and its energy balance
- Synthesis of saturated fatty acids, eicosanoids
- Synthesis of neutral lipids and phospholipids
- Synthesis of cholesterol
- Ketone bodies
- Removal of amino acid nitrogen
- Urea cycle and its importance
- The fate of the carbon skeleton of amino acids
- The role of amino acids in the synthesis of functional compounds containing nitrogen
- Source, transport and utilization of C1 groups
- Metabolism of nucleotides, participation in the synthesis of biologically functional compounds
- Diseases associated with abnormal nucleotid metabolism, compounds influencing on the nucleotide metabolism
- Citric acid cycle, its regulation and importance
- Electron transport chain; its energetics and inhibitors
- Oxidative phosphorylation, effects of uncouplers
- Blood plasma proteins and their functions
- Biochemistry of red blood cells, molecular mechanism of oxygen transport
- Biochemistry of leukocytes
- Biochemical base of blood clotting and fibrinolysis
- Structure and function of biological membrane, dynamics of membrane components
- Transport across the membrane
- Metabolism and energy source of muscle, muscle diseases
- Molecular mechanism and regulation of muscle contraction
- The role of liver in the metabolism
- Mechanism of biotransformation
- Biochemical effects of alcohols
- The role of quantitative composition of nutrients, macronutrients
- The role of quantitative composition of nutrients, micronutrients and dietary fibres
- Metabolism of central nervous system
- Neurotransmitter receptors and the forms of synaptic transmission
- Synthesis and inactivation of neurotransmitter
- Fibrillar proteins of extracellular matrix, types and characteristics of proteoglycans
- Components of cytoskeleton and their importance, importance of cell adhesion
- Biochemistry of hypotalamo and hypophyseale hormone system
- Hormon synthesis in thyroid gland, biochemical effect of thyroid hormones, and Ca2+ homeostasis
- Hormonal regulation of blood glucose level, biochemical consequence of diabetes mellitus
- Synthesis of steroid hormones and their effects
- The structure of DNA, the structure of chromosome, euchromatin, heterochromatin, regulation of transcription, enhancer, silencer, the difference between prokariotic and eukaryotic gene expression
- RNA types, RNA polymerases, the transcription process, maturation of mRNA, mechanism of splicing, tissue specific and development dependent splicing, thalassemias, antisense RNA
- Types and importance of signalling pathways
- Involvement of signalling pathways in the regulation of metabolism
- Regulation of metabolism at the organ level: metabolic adaptation in stress, physical exercise, pregnancy, lactation
- Regulation of metabolism at the organ level: metabolic adaptation in starvation and well-fed state
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