PPH77000 - Clinical Biochemistry, Methodology and Research

(3 units)

This course presents an overview of biochemistry required to understand the chemical basis of physiological processes. Lecture topics include cellular organization of biochemical activities, protein structure and function, hemoglobin and blood buffers, enzyme action, fuel metabolism, hormone regulation of metabolism, drug metabolism and the biochemical basis of drug interactions, and information transfer by nucleic acids. This course also introduces research, epidemiology and methodology in biochemistry and psychopharmacology. Topics include study design, statistics, measures of variability, confounding variables and literature interpretation.