General overview of lecture:
Detailed treatment of metabolism of amino acids degradation and biosynthesis.Inborn errors of metabolism.
The urea cycle; metabolism of inorganic nitrogen.
Disorders of amino acid metabolism. Oxidative and Non-oxidative deamination, Transamination and
decarboxylation, Transamidation, Transport and toxicity of ammonia, Creatine metabolism. Polyamines.
Nucleoside, nucleotide and nucleic acid synthesis/degradation.
Disorders of nucleotide metabolism. Hyperuricemia & other inborn errors. One carbon
metabolism,Transmethylation. Protoporphyrin synthesis in animals and plants.
Hormone and regulatory role in intermediary metabolism.