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Cardiovascular Disease
What diseases affect vasuculature,
What disease affect the heart,
What is the structure of blood ve...
17
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Smooth muscle
Where is smooth muscle present an...,
Why do you target smooth mucle fo...,
Why do you target smooth mucle fo...
17
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Cardiac muscle
What are some diseases of the heart,
How to target these diseases arrh...,
What is the structure of cardiac ...
20
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Hypertension
What are the goals of treatment f...,
What are specific goals of the tr...,
What is stage 1 hypertension
27
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Skeletal muscle
What is the structure of skeletal...,
What is necessary for contraction...,
What are the innervation pathways...
16
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Hypercholesterolemia and Atherosclerosis
What is hypercholesterolaemia,
What is atherosclerosis,
What are risk factors for atheros...
21
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Ischaemic Heart disease
What is ischaemic heart disease,
What are risk factors for ihd,
How to manage angina pectoris
21
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Antithrombotic drugs
What is thrombosis,
Explain the coagulation mechanism,
What are platelets
20
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Intro to resp Disease
What is asthma,
What is copd,
Explain why changes fev1 fvc are bad
15
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Bronchodilators
What do bronchodilators do,
What are b2 adrenoceptor agonists,
How does salbutamol work
19
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Anti-inflammatory Drugs
What can anti inflammatory agents do,
What are other names for corticos...,
What are the types of steroid
18
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Type 1 Diabetes mellitus
What actually is diabetes mellitus,
Describe diabetes mellitus,
What are the direct consequences ...
15
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Type 2 Diabetes
What is type 2 diabetes,
What are current drug therapies f...,
What is metformoin
17
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Obestiy
What is obestiy,
How do we asess obesity,
What are the consequences of obesity
23
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Inflammation and the Immune System
What are the roles of the immune ...,
What is an antigen,
What is an antibody
38
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Allergy
How does an allergy develop,
What is the induction phase,
What is the reactive phase
24
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Pain-COX inhibitors
What are prostanoids,
What is cyclo oxygenase cox,
What are cyclo oxygenase cox inhi...
23
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Opiods
How do opioids block nociceptive ...,
What are the types of opiod receptor,
What are opiod peptides
28
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Local anaesthetics
What is an ap,
What is a refractory period,
How does information flow through...
10
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Intro to CNS
What is the brain,
What is glutamate,
What is gaba
16
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Epilepsy
What is epilepsy,
What is the basis of epileptognesis,
How does epilipsy present
20
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Neurodegenerative Diseases
What is neurodegeneration,
What do neurons lost correlate to,
What is als
23
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Depression
What is depression,
What are the symptoms of depression,
What are the psychological sympto...
20
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Anti-Emetics
What stimulates nausea and vomiting,
What is the physiological respons...,
What nt are involved in nausea an...
19
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Schizophrenia
What is schizophrenia,
What are the positive symptoms of...,
What are the negative symptoms of...
18
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Addiction
What is an addiction,
What are the symptoms of addiction,
What are the componenets of a reward
23
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Drugs of Abuse
Define a drug pharmacological,
What is an experimental drug,
What is a candidate drug
31
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Anti-Microbial drugs
What are microbes,
What are some common anti microbials,
What is penicillin
13
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Anti-viral drugs
What are viruses,
Are they all the same shape,
What do virus dna strands actuall...
11
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Anti-parasitic drugs
What are parasites,
How does malaria work,
List available malaria treatments
14
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Intro to cancer
What is cancer,
What are the different types of t...,
What are benign tumours
21
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Chemotherapy
What are approaches to treat cancer,
What are the general problems wit...,
What are the options for treating...
20
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Targeted approaches to cancer
List targeted approaches to cancer,
Review vegf signalling,
Explain the mechanism for vegf in...
16
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GI:Acid secretion
What are functions of the gi tract,
How is the gi tract controlled,
What are oxyntic glands
20
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GI: Lower GI tract
What is constipation,
What are treatments for constipation,
What is the mucosal layer
8
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GI: Diarrhoea
What is diarrhoea,
What types of infection cause dia...,
What is the mechanism for cholera
9
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Contraception
What types of contraception are a...,
What are permanet contraceptive a...,
What are non hormonal contraceptives
11
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The Kidney
What is the role of the kidney in...,
Kidney stats,
What is the functional unit of th...
13
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