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Concise but packed with medically relevant examples, Harper's Illustrated Biochemistry combines top-quality full-color illustrations with authoritative integrated coverage of biochemical disease. This authoritative clinical guide includes more than 600 illustrations, with each chapter featuring a section on biomedical importance summarizing the given topic.

This authoritative guide presents information in a way that helps you retain everything you read, including case studies emphasizing the clinical relevance of biochemistry, review questions following each of the eleven sections, “Objectives” boxes defining the goals of each chapter, and tables encapsulating key information you must know. In addition, the authors have updated this edition with a new chapter on the importance and pervasiveness of transition metals.

Harper's Illustrated Biochemistry, Thirty-Second Edition delivers critical coverage of:

• Toxic naturally occurring amino acids
• Extraterrestrial biomolecules
• Computer-aided drug design
• cells, basophils, and eosinophils
• The role of complement cascade in bacterial and viral infection
• Secreted mediators of cell-cell signaling between leukocytes
• The hazard of antioxidants that down-regulate radical signaling for apoptosis and increase risk of cancer
• And much more