Medical Biochemistry (CFUBK_068)
About Study Course
Objective
Course objective is to promote the acquisition of knowledge not only about chemical reactions, but also on certain biochemical processes in life-providing processes in the context of the transformation and the development of practical work experience for students, and to build an idea about the analytical results of the statistical processing.
Prerequisites
Chemistry, Physics, Biology.
Learning outcomes
The student knows the life processes of transformation-providing chemical and biochemical reactions, fundamental principles, the operating conditions and consequences.
The student is able to justify the chemical and biochemical methods in use and has acquired the skills to independently carry out those laboratory methods to qualitatively and quantitatively determine analytes in different samples. The student is able to analyse the data obtained with laboratory methods, including his own findings; is able to adequately process and to make consequential and reasoned conclusions about laboratory detected analytes' relationship with metabolic processes in the body.
Based on the theoretical knowledge of the facts, the student is able to:
• describe the reaction's energetic and kinetic parameters (enthalpy, entropy, Gibbs energy, concentration, reaction time);
• outline the biochemical processes and the development in the conditions, eg., hydrolysis of nutrients in the digestive tract, biomolecule structure and functions;
• explain carbohydrate, lipid and protein synthesis reactions and the importance of their implementation.
