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Metabolism at a Glance

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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!

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.

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.

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

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.

This is a great book that I highly suggest if you are a student of metabolism, or just have a general interest in metabolic pathways. It uses visual representations of certain structures, and helps to remember them. Also very nice how it highlights certain metabolic pathways while not excluding other closely-related pathways, which I think too many texts do when teaching this material. I bought it a great price, and am very happy that I did. Highly recommended.

This book is saving me as I take my medical biochemistry class now. This book maps many of the pathways on one page (the book has large pages) so you can see how different pathways are interconnected and where in the cell various processes occur. I learn things visually and like to see the big picture. So, learning different pathways and parts of pathways spread on several lecture notes don't help me much as this book does. This book is a major reason why I have a solid A in the class so far. I highly recommend it for metabolic or medical biochemistry classes.

Though I would not use this as my primary source of knowledge, it presents the material in a VERY supporting way and was great at clarifying/clearing up issues I had with other sources concerning metabolism. Bottom line: a worthwhile purchase for the price!

I had to buy this book for a class but I had no idea how detailed it was. It's so simply organized and makes such critical and confusing concepts more clear cut and easy to understand. I'll continue to refer to this throughout graduate school and my later career I'm sure.

I wish I'd known about this book during paramedic class. At first glance, it looks just as complicated as all other treatises on metabolism, once you start walking through the chapters everything unfolds brilliantly.

Though this book is *not* a substitute for the normal course of learning metabolism, it is an excellent adjunct. I highly recommend this book to anyone who needs to gain insight into how the process of metabolism works.