Principles of medicine

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Decks in this class (30)

Lecture 2 - Acute Inflammation
Effects of cellular injury,
Causes of atp depletion,
Atp depletion leads to
17  cards
Lecture 4 - Chronic Inflammation
Clinical presentations of acute i...,
Clinical presentations of inflamm...,
Inappropriate inflammatory responses
7  cards
Lecture 5 - Microbe, Immunity and Disease
Identifying viruses,
Identifying bacteria fungi,
Identifying parasites
6  cards
Lecture 6 - Innate Immunity
Functions of immune system,
Biophysical defence factors,
Functions of lymphatic system
7  cards
Lecture 7 - Antibodies in Infection
Secondary lymphoid organs filter ...,
Dendritic cells,
B lymphocyte function
13  cards
Lecture 8 - Activities of Pathogens 1
Types of pathogen,
In order for an infection to caus...,
Pathogenesis of appendicitis
7  cards
Lecture 9 - T Cells in Infection
Smear cells,
Why do we need more than antibodies,
T cell antigen recognition
11  cards
Lecture 10 - Activities of Pathogens II
Strep pyogenes characterisitics,
Presentations of rheumatic fever,
Direct transmission of infection
5  cards
Lecture 11 - Staph Aureus
Gram positive,
Animal disease,
Colonisation
8  cards
Lecture 12 - Tuberculosis
Tb infection,
If apoptosis of infected cell is ...,
Miliary tb
7  cards
Lecture 13 - Influenza
Influenza vs common cold,
Cytokin linkage,
Influenza interaction w epithelia...
10  cards
Lecture 14 - Medical Genetics: Consequences of Genomic Alteration
Beta thalassemia,
Down syndrome causes,
Multifactoral genetic disorders
13  cards
Lecture 15 - Autosomal Dominant and Recessive Disorders
Rules that apply to ad condition,
Characteristics of ad disorders,
Dominant negative effect
5  cards
Lecture 16 - Chromosomal Disordrs
Areas of a chromosome,
Neumerical chromosomal abnormalit...,
Aneuploidy of sex chromosomes
10  cards
Lecture 18 - Testing for Genetic Disorders
Prenatal test types,
When to test for single gene diso...,
When to test for chromosomal diso...
11  cards
Lecture 21 - X-Linked Disorders and Mitochondrial Inheritance
Examples of x linked recessive di...,
Strategies for pedigree analysis,
Why dont females produce twice as...
11  cards
Lecture 22 - Genomic Imprinting and Dynamic Mutation'
Epigenetic trait,
Epigenetics examples,
Dna methylation
12  cards
Lecture 23 - Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
Stem cells,
Totipotent cells,
Pleuripotent cells
6  cards
Lecture 24 - Genetic Therapies
Model systems,
Bench to bedside translation,
Gene therapy definition
11  cards
Lecture 25 - Cystic Fibrosis
Newborn screening process,
Cf phys,
Cf newborn screen
23  cards
Lecture 26 - Multifactorial Disease
Multifactorial disease definition,
Pathologies of multifactorial inh...,
Threshold model
10  cards
Lecture 27 - Introduction to Tumour Growth
Cell differentiation involves,
Reductions in tissue mass,
Hypertrophy and hyperplasia
17  cards
Lecture 28 - Genes and Cancer
Genes causing cancer,
Functions of oncogenes,
Key factors in transforming norma...
10  cards
Lecture 29 - Familial Cancer
Indicators of familial cancer,
Once both alleles are deleted,
Breast cancer genetics and male c...
3  cards
Lecture 30 - Classification, Grading and Staging
Monoclonal cells,
Multiple myeloma,
Why classify tumours
17  cards
Lecture 31 - Environmental Basis of Cancer
Complete carcinogen,
Papilomas,
Initiator promoter relationship
21  cards
Lecture 32 - Cellular Basis of Malignancy
Epithelial to mesenchymal transit...,
Irreversible emt,
Reversible emt
5  cards
Lecture 33 - Nutrition in Cancer
Weight loss in cancer,
Cancer cachexia,
Factors contributing to protein e...
4  cards
Lecture 34 - Non-coding RNA and Disease
Ncrnas involved in,
Small ncrna types,
Microrna mirna and cancer
4  cards
Lecture 35 - Modern Genetic and Bioinformatic Technologies
0  cards

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