Question

On the basis of your research, respond to the following: What is the difference between biochemical, pharmaceutical, and diagnostic chemical reactions in healthcare? What is a specific example that exists for each of these chemical reaction types above and why might it be of importance to healthcare professionals? List a balanced chemical equation for each of these chemical reaction types and explain how it is used in your example above.

Answer 1

Biochemical Reactions happen within a cell and it involves the transformation of one molecule to a different molecule, it can be by breakdown of molecules called catabolic reaction or by building up the molecules called anabolic reaction. The major classes of biochemicals are proteins,nuceic acids,lipids and carbohydrates. These reactions naturally happens in body all time and catalyses by enzymes that called biological catalysts that affects the rate and the specificity of the reaction inside the cell.As an example of this reaction, is the formation of proteins by the combinations of amino acids one by one as a building blocks for it. Like, two amino acids forming an amide bond to create a dipeptide and losing a molecule of water.

glycine + valine glycine-valine + H₂o

Pharmaceutical chemical reactions are the resulting reactions of the manmade pharmaceuticals (ie. medicine) interacting with the biomolecules in the human body.These reactions are very important and helpful to understand the work of medicines whether its worked well or not, so that scientists can betterly evolved the design and chemical synthesis of pharmaceuticals in the field of healthcare. An example is aspirin. It transfers an acetyl group to a serine amino acid residue of a protein enzyme called a COX inhibitor. In reaction form it would be:

aspirin + COX salicylic acid + COX-OAc

Lastly but importantly, the Diagnostic chemical reactions are those which used to for the medical testing purposes , that means these are the basis of a medication starts in healthcare. It usually occurs outside of the body with the help of medical euipments. Such a tests are used to confirm that a person is free from disease or to fully diagnose a disease.An example is the test to measure the blood levels of serum albumin, the most commonly found protein in the human blood serum (k/as egg protein). The dye bromocresol green binds with albumin, thus forming a coloured complex. The light absorption of this complex can measured by the spectrophotometer to determine the concentration of albumin in the blood sample.

albumin + bromocresol green colored complex

These all reactions are equally helpful in healthcare for the betterment of health quality, as we can understand like this for ourselves,the biochemical reactions (what already present in body), diagnostic reactions (what less there) and by pahrmaceutical reactions (what we need after ).