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Parent topics
- Biology [r]: The science of life — of complex, self-organizing, information-processing systems living in the past, present or future. [e]
- Biochemistry [r]: The chemistry of living things; a field of both biology and chemistry. [e]
Subtopics
General pathways
- Carbohydrate metabolism [r]: The various biochemical processes responsible for the formation, breakdown and interconversion of carbohydrates in living organisms. [e]
- Fatty acid metabolism [r]: Oxidative degradation of saturated fatty acids in which two-carbon units are sequentially removed from the molecule with each turn of the cycle, and metabolized so that it can be used as a source of energy in aerobic respiration. [e]
- Protein synthesis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nucleic acid metabolism [r]: Process by which nucleotides are synthesized and degraded, using an anabolic mechanism generally involving chemical reaction of phosphate, pentose sugar, and a nitrogenous base. [e]
- Central metabolism [r]: Add brief definition or description
Anabolism
- Anabolic [r]: Biological processes that build larger molecules from smaller ones, and increase the size of bones, organs and muscles. [e]
- Biosynthesis [r]: The production of chemical metabolites by living systems. [e]
- Glycogenesis [r]: Conversion of glucose to glycogen, in which glucose molecules are added to chains of glycogen for storage, which is stimulated by insulin from the pancreas. [e]
- Gluconeogenesis [r]: Formation of glucose, especially by the liver, from noncarbohydrate precursors, such as amino acids, lactate, pyruvate, and the glycerol portion of fats. [e]
- Porphyrin [r]: Class of cyclic compounds in which the parent macrocycle consists of four pyrrole-type units interconnected at their α carbon atoms via a methine bridge, and functioning as a metal-binding cofactor in haemoglobin, chlorophyll, and certain enzymes. [e]
- HMG-CoA reductase pathway [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Secondary metabolism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Photosynthesis [r]: Scientific term for the conversion of sunlight into energy by plants [e]
- Calvin cycle [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Carbon fixation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Glyoxylate cycle [r]: Metabolic pathway in some orgnaisms which uses acetyl CoAs to synthesize carbohydrates. [e]
Catabolism
- Glycolysis [r]: A biochemical pathway by which a molecule of glucose is oxidized to two molecules of pyruvate. [e]
- Glycogenolysis [r]: Breakdown conversion of glycogen to glucose, which occurs in the liver and is stimulated by glucagon from the pancreas and adrenaline from the adrenal medulla. [e]
- Citric acid cycle [r]: A series of enzyme-catalysed chemical reactions of central importance in all living cells that use oxygen as part of cellular respiration. [e]
- Beta-oxidation [r]: Add brief definition or description
Drug metabolism
- Drug metabolism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cytochrome P450 oxidase [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Flavin-containing monooxygenase system [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Alcohol metabolism [r]: Add brief definition or description
Nitrogen metabolism
- Nitrogen cycle [r]: Add brief definition or description:
- Urea cycle [r]: Cycle of biochemical reactions occurring in many animals that produces urea (NH2)2CO from ammonia (NH3), with the key reaction being the hydrolysis of arginine by arginase to ornithine and urea. [e]
- Nitrogen assimilation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nitrification [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Denitrification [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other
Other related topics
- Metabolomics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Metabolome [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Metabolite [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Basal metabolic rate [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Thermic effect of food [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Iron-sulfur world theory [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Biodegradation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Calorimetry [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Respirometry [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Microbial metabolism [r]: The means by which a microbe obtains the energy and nutrients (e.g. carbon) it needs to live and propagate. [e]
- Metabolic network modelling [r]: Add brief definition or description
- dynamic energy budget [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Newborn screening [r]: Add brief definition or description
- 3-Methylcrotonyl-CoA carboxylase deficiency [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Argininosuccinic acidemia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Beta-Ketothiolase deficiency [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Biotinidase deficiency [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Carnitine uptake defect [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Citrullinemia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Classical galactosemia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Congenital adrenal hyperplasia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Congenital hypothyroidism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cystic fibrosis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Glutaric acidemia type I [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hb S/Beta-Thalassemia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Homocystinuria [r]: Hereditary disease characterized by a deficiency of the enzyme serine dehydratase, causing genetic defects. [e]
- HMG-CoA lyase deficiency [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Isovaleric acidemia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Long-chain 3-OH acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Maple syrup urine disease [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Methylmalonic acidemia (CBLAB) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Methylmalonic acidemia (MUT) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Multiple carboxylase deficiency [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Phenylketonuria [r]: A metabolic disease due to the reduction or loss of activity of the enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH). [e]
- Propionic acidemia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sickle cell anemia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Trifunctional protein deficiency [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tyrosinemia type I [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Very long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency [r]: Add brief definition or description
