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Metabolism is the process your body uses to get or make energy from the food you eat. Food is made up of proteins, carbohydrates and fats. Chemicals in your digestive system break the food parts down into sugars and acids, your body's fuel. Your body can use this fuel right away, or it can store the energy in your body tissues, such as your liver, muscles and body fat.
A metabolic disorder occurs when abnormal chemical reactions in your body disrupt this process. When this happens, you might have too much of some substances or too little of other ones that you need to stay healthy.
You can develop a metabolic disorder when some organs, such as your liver or pancreas, become diseased or do not function normally. Diabetes is an example.
The serum level of calcium is closely regulated within a fairly limited range in the human body, with a normal ''total calcium'' of 2.2-2.6 mmol/L (9-10.5 mg/dl), and a normal ''ionized calcium'' of 1.1-1.4 mmol/L (4.5-5.6 mg/dL). The amount of biologically active calcium varies with the level of albumin, a protein to which calcium is bound, and therefore levels of ''ionized calcium'' are better measures than a ''total calcium''; however, one can correct a ''total calcium'' if the albumin level is known. A ''total calcium'' of less than 8.5 mg/dL is hypocalcemia, while a ''total calcium'' of more than 11.0 mg/dL is hypercalcemia. see also: calcium metabolism [ Read More ]
Lipomics Technologies, Inc. - Resources in therapeutics and diagnostics for metabolic disorders. Includes powerpoint-dependent slide show of lipid metabolites, and library of fatty acids and sterols from discovery and development company, offering commercial lipid analysis and contract research, based in West Sacramento, CA.
University of Minnesota Gene Therapy Center - Clinical gene therapy research programs focusing on metabolic disorders.
BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. - Researches and develops therapies for debilitating, fatal, chronic genetic disorders causing enzyme deficiency of carbohydrate metabolism, such as phenylketonuria. Headquarters in Novato, California. (Nasdaq: BMRN).
Insmed, Inc. - Protein manufacturing facility concentrated on developing treatments for metabolic and endocrine disorders. Details of investor relations and cGMP process manufacturing at Boulder, Colorado. (Nasdaq: INSM)
LLorens Pharmaceuticals - Make proteinex, a predigested protein and medicines for diabetes, metabolic disorders.
Esperion - Dedicated to developing new medicines to treat atherosclerosis, diabetes, obesity, stroke, and related metabolic disorders.
Scios, Inc. - Discovers, develops and commercializes novel human therapeutics focusing in the areas of cardiopulmonary diseases, renal and metabolic disorders, tissue repair and other chronic diseases. (Nasdaq: SCIO).
Carnitine Palmitoyltransferase Deficiency - Newsletter for health care professionals and patients interested in CPT deficiency, a mitochondrial disorder of fat metabolism that causes muscle breakdown.
Center for Inherited Disorders of Energy Metabolism (CIDEM) - A group of inter-disciplinary, clinical diagnostic laboratories which focus on disorders of mitochondrial function at Case Western Reserve University.
eMedicine - Hyperventilation Syndrome - Condition in which minute ventilation exceeds metabolic demands, resulting in hemodynamic and chemical changes that produce characteristic symptoms. Information about this disorder including possible treatment.