📘 Step 1 — Curriculum Coverage
Focuses on NADPH production and antioxidant defense.
🔹 Biochemistry
- Role of pentose phosphate pathway
- Tissues where HMP shunt occurs
- Reactions of oxidative phase
- Reactions of non-oxidative phase
- Role of thiamine
- Similarities and differences between glycolysis and HMP pathway
- Functions of NADPH
- G6PD deficiency
- Regulation of HMP pathway
