Chapter 3: Utilisation of Food: Metabolism of Carbohydrates, Protein and Fats

Unit II: Nutritive Phase of Metabolism. Contact Hours: 20. Topics: Meaning and types of metabolism; carbohydrate metabolism with Cori cycle and blood-sugar regulation, hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia and glycosuria; aerobic breakdown through glycolysis and TCA cycle, glycogenolysis, glycogenesis and gluconeogenesis; protein metabolism with amino acid pool, deamination, urea synthesis through ornithine cycle, transamination, decarboxylation and transmethylation; site of protein synthesis; fat metabolism with beta oxidation and ketone bodies.