The College of Dentistry at Basra University held a scientific lecture on inorganic biochemistry and its clinical importance.The lecture addressed the role of metals and their importance to living organisms and the study of both natural phenomena such as the behavior of metalloproteins as well as industrially introduced metals, including non-essential ones, in medicine and toxicology. Dr. Hoda Mahdi Younis, explained that it depends on many biological processes, such as breathing, which contains molecules that fall within the scope of inorganic biochemistry.
She referred to diseases that affect humans resulting from high levels of many elements in the body, such as Alzheimer’s disease and its relationship to increased levels of zinc and copper in brain cells and some important medications that contain various elements that have a therapeutic role, such as platinum compounds used in treating cancer or medications that contain gold derivatives to treat arthritis.
The lecture concluded by studying the development of some sensors to detect many metals inside the body, which helps in the process of diagnosing various diseases.
