| Educational guide Faculty of Chemistry |
english |
| Nutrition and Metabolism (2012) |
 Subjects |
| METABOLIC REGULATION |
| Contents |
| IDENTIFYING DATA | 2023_24 |
| Subject | METABOLIC REGULATION | Code | 13675252 | |||||
| Study programme |
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Cycle | 2nd | |||||
| Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | ||||
| 3 | Optional | AN |
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| Competences | Learning aims | Contents |
| Planning | Methodologies | Personalized attention |
| Assessment | Sources of information | Recommendations |
| Topic | Sub-topic |
| 1. Metabolism. Metabolic control and regulation. | 1.1. General concepts of metabolic control and regulation. 1.2. Long-term metabolic control 1.3. Short-term metabolic control 1.3.1 Control by the concentration of active substrate 1.3.2 Control by active enzyme concentration 1.3.3 Substrate cycles |
| 2. Energy metabolism |
2.1. Concepts. 2.2. Energy metabolism. 2.3. Pyruvate dehydrogenase complex. 2.4. Tricarboxylic acid cycle (TCA) and its regulation. 2.5. In vivo TCA: b-oxidation, ketogenesis, degradation of amino acids. 2.6. Respiratory chain and oxidative phosphorylation. Respiratory control. 2.7. Thermogenesis and brown adipose tissue 2.8. ATP-ADP translocation. Protein import. 2.9. Free radicals and antioxidants 2.10. Aging, diseases and mitochondria |
| 3. Carbohydrate metabolism. |
3.1. Description and anatomy of the liver and muscle 3.2. Glycogen regulation, synthesis and degradation. 3.3. Regulation Glycolysis and gluconeogenesis. 3.4. Regulation of pentose phosphate pathway. |
| 4. Lipid metabolism. |
4.1. Oxidation of fatty acids regulation. 4.2. Lipid synthesis regulation. 4.3. Cholesterol metabolism regulation. 4.4. Description adipose tissue. 4.5. Fat accumulation regulation. 4.6. Fat mobilization regulation. 4.7. Differentiation. 4.8 Obesity |
| 5. Amino acid and protein metabolism. | 5.1. Description proteins and amino acid acids 5.2. Protein catabolism regulation 5.3. Protein anabolism regulation 5.4. Urea cycle 5.5. Regulation of the urea cycle |
