Available to all students registered for a Single Honours degree in Biochemistry with or without another subject. Students doing Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine would have preference should the cap be reached. Available to JYA/Erasmus students. Students from other degree courses need the module convenors’ permission in writing to select this module and may be removed from the enrolment without this.

The module includes material covering the following topics:
Control of energy balance and satiety by hormonal and neuronal mechanisms;
Diabetes – its history, disease types, frequency and typical symptoms;
The molecular basis of insulin signalling and the effects of obesity on this
pathway;
Effects of obesity and diabetes upon lipid metabolism and inflammation;
Mechanisms by which inflammation and circulating blood lipids contribute to
atherosclerosis and major blood vessel disease;
Current and future therapies for obesity and diabetes.
The emphasis throughout is illustrating how the molecular basis of homeostasis
underpins normal and physiology and disease.

This module aims to encourage students to utilise their biochemical knowledge to explain hormonal control of metabolism and how problems in the control of normal hormonal processes can lead to a broad spectrum of metabolic diseases.

Some lectures would be co-scheduled with module MED2009

Some lectures would be co-scheduled with module MED2009