Metabolism at a Glance

By J.G. Salway and J G Salway

Metabolism at a Glance presents a concise, illustrated summary of metabolism in health and disease. This essential text is progressively appropriate for introductory through to advanced medical and biochemistry courses. It also provides a succinct review of inborn errors of metabolism, and reference for postgraduate medical practitioners and biomedical scientists who need a resource to quickly refresh their knowledge.

Fully updated and extensively illustrated, this new edition of Metabolism at a Glance is now in full colour throughout, and includes new coverage of sports biochemistry; the metabolism of lipids, carbohydrates and cholesterol; glyceroneogenesis, α-oxidation and ω-oxidation of fatty acids. It also features the overlooked "Krebs Uric Acid Cycle".

Metabolism at a Glance offers an accessible introduction to metabolism, and is ideal as a revision aid for students preparing for undergraduate and USMLE Step 1 exams.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470674717
• ISBN13: 9780470674710
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 11.1" x 13.1"

Customer Reviews

great view of the big picture

Metabolism at a Glance helped me in an advanced metabolism class: it shows all the inter-relationships between the different metabolic pathways, and overall is very complete. I purchased it on recommendation by one of my professors. I imagine that this book will be helpful to anyone in fields such as nutrition, exercise physiology, biochemistry, and at the very least is a good companion to any graduate level biochemistry/physiology textbook or class. The text can be small despite the oversized nature of the book, but then again, there's not much that can be done to resolve that given the number of enzymes, substrates, etc. involved in these pathways. I highly recommend this book.

Excellent, Concise, and Thorough!

This large format book reveiws basic metabolism in an easy to understand manner. Specific segments of the metabolic pathway are summarized within two pages. Each face-page gives an overview of the entire metabolic pathway, with an outline of the specific topic discussed within that section. Far easier to comprehend than the metabolic pathways as described in those well known Biochemistry tomes, where the entire metabolic pathway is spread over 100 or so pages!

Superb diagrams; required reading for all biochem students

The above is adequate. I'm a biochemistry student and have no time for writing reviews :)

Metabolic pathways??? - Brilliant!

As a biochemistry student I found this book to be the perfect partner to Albert Lehninger's "Principles of Biochemistry". An excellent overall picture of how each pathway interacts with other metabolic components.

This is a great book for biochemistry students

This oversized paperback gives a wonderful overview of thesynthesis/metabolism of sugars, proteins andfatty acides. On the right hand page there is a picture of the complete metabolic pathway with the current topics pathways highlighted so that you can see how they fit in to the "big picture". On the opposite page a clear and concise summary is given, highlighting key points. I highly recommend this book to any student who is taking a Biochemistry class.