Synopses & Reviews
Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Biochemistry enables rapid review and assimilation of large amounts of complex information about the essentials of medical biochemistry. These outstanding features make this text helpful:
- Outline Format Text Important topics are shown in bold print and enzyme names in italics, making it easy for you to find what you're looking for and to quickly understand relationships between concepts.
- Illustrations Over 500 carefully crafted illustrations bring biochemistry alive for you.
- Cross References The cross-references to Harvey and Chame's Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Pharmacology allow you to readily learn additional information about a particular topic without having to search for the material.
- Questions and Answers Practice is the key to success! Test your mastery of the material with more than 250 practice questions. Explanations accompany the answers so you'll learn "why" and not just "what."
Students who are preparing for standard courses or examinations (USMLE, FLEX, ECFMG, FMGEM) will find this remarkable work "must" reading to master biochemistry essentials.
Synopsis
This popular study guide and review provide a quick survey of the field of biochemistry, covering the essentials that students need to know. Includes board-type questions to give students experience for what they will encounter in actual examinations. Now thoroughly revised and updated throughout, with much new material on cholesterol and steroid metabolism, nutrition and protein synthesis. Plus, the authors have included a unique cross-referencing system to the book's companion volume, Harvey and Champe's Lippincott's Illustrated Review of Pharmacology.