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Biochemistry

Amino acids, vitamins, proteins, energy metabolism. The molecular machinery behind every disease.

Low Energy State (ATP Depletion) 🔒

What happens when the cell runs out of gas. 7 tissue-specific deep dives into reversible vs irreversible injury across breast, marrow, reproductive, respiratory, renal, and vascular systems.

Breast & Marrow Resp & Renal Repro & Endo Vascular

Vitamins, Minerals & Trace Elements 🔒

The cofactors that keep every metabolic pathway running. Fat-soluble vitamins, B vitamins, minerals, and trace elements — functions, deficiency states, toxicity, and high-yield clinical correlations.

Fat-Soluble B Vitamins Minerals & Trace

Amino Acids & Biochemistry 🔒

Amino acid structure, Henderson-Hasselbalch, drug absorption, toxicology management, isoelectric point, electrophoresis, and every individual amino acid with clinical correlations.

Toxicology Isoelectric Pt All Amino Acids

Metabolic Diseases & Starvation 🔒

Essential amino acids, starvation energy timeline, PKU, tyrosine catabolism, albinism, vitiligo, alkaptonuria, maple syrup urine disease, cystinuria, and the newborn screening panel.

Starvation PKU Newborn Screen

PKU (Phenylketonuria) 🔒

One broken enzyme, a cascade of consequences. Phenylalanine hydroxylase, the toxic shunt, musty odor, newborn screening, maternal PKU. Interactive pathway diagram, 8-question quiz pool.

PAH tyrosine newborn screen aspartame

Protein Structure & Function 🔒

Protein sequencing, 4 levels of structure, restriction enzymes, amyloidosis (7 types), pharmacokinetics, enzyme kinetics, Michaelis-Menten, drug metabolism, and hemoglobin.

Sequencing Amyloidosis Pharmacokinetics

Enzymes

Michaelis-Menten kinetics, competitive vs non-competitive inhibition, the electron transport chain, ETC poisons, enzyme naming conventions, and why 90% of drugs are competitive inhibitors.

Km & Vmax ETC Inhibitors Enzyme Naming