Amendments and Errata to First Edition
Inside front cover
Under ‘lateral’ it should say midline instead of midle
Page 34
Under ‘Starch’ it should say amylose instead of amylase
Page 94
In what is metabolism second bullet point should start anabolism not metabolism
Page 102
PDH kinase is INactivated by PDH substrates
Page 188
It should read:
purines - guanine and ADENINE
pyramidines - cytosine and THYMINE
Page 192
Initiation. page refers to DNA polymerase II. It is RNA polymerase II that catalyses mRNA formation.
Page 220
Corrected equations should read as follows:
and
Page 375
The text up to Surfactant is secreted by Type II alveolar cells from about 30 weeks gestation … should be replaced with the following:
A saline-filled lung is readily inflated, whereas surface tension at one with an air-water interface shows reduced compliance. Surfactant reduces surface tension compared to water and renders the lung more compliant. On alveolar inflation, as the surface area of the surfactant film increases, surface tension is increased, thereby preventing smaller alveoli from emptying into larger ones. Finally, the static surface tension of a film of surfactant is greater when measured during expansion than during contraction (this accounts for the observed hysteresis).
Page 390
Where the text currently reads:
‘Resting O2 consumption is approximately 300L O2 min−1’,
it should instead read:
‘Resting O2 consumption is approximately 250mL O2 min−1’.
Page 442
For the vascular resistance equation it should be:
vascular resistance is proportional to length x fluid viscosity (radius)4
i.e. radius should be to the power of 4.
Page 480
The last equation, should read:
ie: volume cleared = GFR = ([X]urine.V) / [X]plasma
(that is [X]urine should multiply by V, not divide as appears in the book).
Page 626
Morning after pill contains a high concentration of progesterone not estrogen
Page 919
Under the entry for Viagra it should read 246 not 10.10.5
