Biochemistry Essentials: A Comprehensive Guide, 2nd Edition – Dinesh Puri & Parul Gupta Premium Multicolor Matt Print

Biochemistry is the subject first-year students most often fail to convert into marks. The usual reason is that it gets learned as a list of pathways to be memorised and forgotten, with no thread connecting the enzyme on the page to anything a patient will ever present with.

Biochemistry Essentials is written against that. Dinesh Puri and Parul Gupta keep the language plain, tie each topic to its clinical relevance, and finish every chapter with a mind map — so the pathway you just read gets compressed into something you can actually revise from the night before an exam.

New in This Edition

• Updated throughout with recent advances in diagnostic biochemistry and molecular techniques
• A chapter covering artificial intelligence in the clinical biochemistry laboratory — an area almost no undergraduate text has caught up with yet

What This Book Covers

Thirty-one chapters in seven sections:

• Section I — Biomolecules: water and buffers, membranes, enzymes, carbohydrates, lipids, amino acids and proteins, connective tissue, plasma proteins and immunoglobulins
• Section II — Metabolism: carbohydrate, lipid and amino acid metabolism, biological oxidation, and the integration of metabolism
• Section III — Physiological Chemistry: haem metabolism, oxygen transporters and muscle contraction
• Section IV — Nutrition: energy metabolism, vitamins, minerals
• Section V — Molecular Biology: nucleotide metabolism, DNA replication and repair, transcription and translation, gene regulation, recombinant DNA technology
• Section VI — Clinical Chemistry: water and electrolytes, organ function tests, cancer, separation techniques
• Section VII — Contemporary Topics: xenobiotics, free radicals and antioxidants, and artificial intelligence in clinical biochemistry laboratories

Key Features

• Chapter-end mind maps — the feature students actually use, and the reason this book survives revision week
• Flowcharts and structured diagrams for pathways that are hopeless as prose
• Strong clinical correlation, so metabolism connects to presentation rather than sitting on its own
• Simple, student-friendly language without thinning the content
• Line diagrams, tables and summary boxes throughout
• Covers metabolism, enzymes, molecular biology, nutrition and clinical biochemistry in one volume

Who Is This Book For?

• MBBS students, particularly in first year
• BDS and dental students
• Physiotherapy and allied health sciences students
• Medical laboratory technology students
• Anyone revising biochemistry for a professional or entrance examination

The book is written to the CBME/NMC medical curriculum. The biochemistry content is the standard undergraduate syllabus, so it maps closely onto what is taught in Pakistani medical colleges.

Book Details

• Title: Biochemistry Essentials: A Comprehensive Guide
• Edition: Second Edition
• Authors: Dinesh Puri, Parul Gupta
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2026
• ISBN-13: 9788131273166
• Chapters: 31, in 7 sections
• Language: English

Please note: the cover advertises an Enhanced Digital Version. The publisher's eBook, online access code, whiteboard lectures and question bank are not included with this copy.

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