Specialized Topics
The Programmed Cell Death category includes posts that cover the concepts of the more broadly descriptive regulated cell death (RCD). Within the context of RCD there is the commonly utilized description of programmed cell death (PCD). The more classical forms of PCD are of three distinct types, apoptosis, autophagy, and necroptosis. Apoptosis is also referred to as type I PCD, autophagy is also referred to as type II PCD, and necroptosis is also referred to type III PCD.
This section contains posts that cover a variety of highly specialized and integrative topics not often found in a typical Medical Biochemistry textbook. These topics include renal transport biochemistry, physiology, and pathology, biochemistry and physiology of the interactions between the gut and the brain, biochemistry and physiology of the nervous system, skeletal and smooth muscle, steroid and peptide hormones, blood coagulation (hemostasis), biochemistry and physiology of adipose tissue, pathology and molecular biology of cancer, insulin functions, and type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
