Diagnostic Chemical Interactions

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Healthcare applications of Chemical reactions Discussion 1 * What is the difference between biochemical, pharmaceutical, and diagnostic chemical reactions in healthcare? The basic aims of health profession are to get the understanding and maintenance of health and understanding and effective treatment of diseases. Biochemistry greatly effects on both aspects. Biochemical studies clarified many aspects of health and disease, and conversely, the study of various aspects of health and disease has opened up new areas of biochemistry. Diagnostic chemical reactions are those used for medical testing purposes such as a glucose tolerance test. A chemical is introduced to the body in order for the physicians to measure the results of the chemical interaction. In this case, a patient would consume a drink with a high concentration of glucose…show more content…
Importance of biochemistry can be seen from the fact, that it is used in many aspects of daily life, like in clinical diagnosis, manufactured of various biological products, treatment of diseases in, nutrition, agricultural. Biochemistry helps one to understand the biochemical changes and related physiological alteration in the body. * List a balanced chemical equation for each of these chemical reaction types and explain how it is used in your example above As a simple example of how to balance an equation, let us take the reaction which occurs when a large excess of mercury combines with bromine. In this case the product is a white solid which does not melt but instead changes to a gas when heated above 345°C. It is insoluble in water. From these properties it can be identified as miraculous bromide, Hg2Br2. The equation for the reaction would look like this: Hg + Br2 → Hg2Br2 (1) Discussion 2 * Identify the two important classes of

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