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Books > Medicine > Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences > Physiology > Metabolism
As humans evolved from primordial organisms they lost the capacity
to make certain essential molecules. By their very absence in
specific pathologies and diseases, the thirteen human vitamins were
discovered and their crucial role in metabolism revealed. This
textbook provides a thorough chemocentric view on the key small
molecules of life, the human vitamins and their active coenzyme
forms. Detailing how their unique chemistries control the
interconversion and the flux of hundreds of central human
metabolites, The Chemical Biology of Human Vitamins examines the
parallel and convergent tracks of the vitamins and their coenzyme
forms. Analysing the mode of action of each of the vitamins, the
book will illuminate the challenges that face each cell; metabolism
could not proceed without the chemical functional groups vitamins
provide. Authored by leading educators, this text will serve as an
ideal guide and reference point for chemists in both academia and
industry, graduates and advanced undergraduate students in
biochemistry, chemical biology, metabolism and metabolomics.
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