Amino acids, vitamins, proteins, energy metabolism. The molecular machinery behind every disease.
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.
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.
Amino acid structure, Henderson-Hasselbalch, drug absorption, toxicology management, isoelectric point, electrophoresis, and every individual amino acid with clinical correlations.
Essential amino acids, starvation energy timeline, PKU, tyrosine catabolism, albinism, vitiligo, alkaptonuria, maple syrup urine disease, cystinuria, and the newborn screening panel.
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.
Protein sequencing, 4 levels of structure, restriction enzymes, amyloidosis (7 types), pharmacokinetics, enzyme kinetics, Michaelis-Menten, drug metabolism, and hemoglobin.
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.