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RESP- Pulmonary Ventilation
What factors are lung volume and ...,
What is pulmonary ventilation,
What is pulmonary ventilation use...
22  cards
RESP- Mechanics of Breathing
What is airway resistance,
What affect does a decrease in ai...,
What is a respiratory condition w...
19  cards
RESP- Gas Exchange in the Lung
Give a basic outline of how oxyge...,
What is gas exchange,
What factors achieve maximum diff...
14  cards
RESP- Oxygen Transport
How is oxygen transported around ...,
How is carbon dioxide transported...,
Is more oxygen bound to haemoglob...
26  cards
RESP- CO2 Transport
How is carbon dioxide transported...,
How does co2 form carbonic acid,
What is the haldane effect
5  cards
RESP- Pathophysiology of Respiratory Diseases I
How to allergic responses develop,
How is an asthmatic response trig...,
In an asthmatic response what att...
11  cards
RESP- Neural Control of Breathing
Why is there a need to modulate v...,
What circumstances will increase ...,
How does breathing change to modu...
23  cards
RESP- Integrated Control of Breathing
How do the lungs and the kidney m...,
Respiratory acidosis alkalosis is...,
Respiratory acidosis occurs when
15  cards
RESP- Pathophysiology of Respiratory Diseases II
What is copd,
Outline how tobacco smoke causes ...,
Outline some pathological feature...
9  cards
RESP- Clinical Evaluation of Respiratory Function
What does fvc and fev1 stand for,
How do you calculate the of total...,
What is indicative of airway obst...
8  cards
RESP- Respiratory failure - causes and complications
List potential causes of hypoxaem...,
Compare type 1 vs type 2 respirat...,
What are the clinical signs of re...
4  cards
CARDIO- Red Blood Cell Production and Survival
What is the sequence of events fo...,
How is red cell production regulated,
How does erythropoietin regulate ...
23  cards
CARDIO- Cardiac action potentials and conduction pathway
Where are pacemaker potentials ge...,
How does the san produce pacemake...,
Outline the conduction of electri...
5  cards
CARDIO- Cardiac Cycle
What is the cardiac cycle,
What are the general principles o...,
Outline the flow of blood through...
12  cards
CARDIO- Preload and Afterload
How is stroke volume controlled,
What is preload,
What is contractility
19  cards
CARDIO- heart rate and contractility
What is heart contractility,
Why would you want to lower heart...,
What does a high heart rate do
17  cards
CARDIO- Arrhythmias and Anti-arrhythmic drugs
What is an arrhythmia,
What are the symptoms of arrhythmias,
What are the causes of arrythmias
19  cards
CARDIO- Heart failure
What is the classification of hea...,
How many classes of heart failure...,
What are the symptoms of heart fa...
17  cards
CARDIO- Arteries, Arterioles and Veins
0  cards
CARDIO- Thrombosis
0  cards
CARDIO- different types of capillaries, functions and solute movement
0  cards
CARDIO- fluid movement and oedema
0  cards
CARDIO- introduction to lymphatics
0  cards
CARDIO- vascular tone and vascular smooth muscle
0  cards
CARDIO- vascular tone and the endothelium
0  cards
CARDIO- angina and acute coronary syndrome
0  cards
CARDIO- atheroma and infarction
0  cards
RENAL- Functional Histology of the Kidney
What is the function of the kidney,
What is the functional unit of th...,
Describe the structure of the nep...
21  cards
RENAL- renal blood flow and glomerular filtration
What causes the formation of glom...,
What is hydrostatic pressure,
What is capsular hydrostatic pres...
13  cards
RENAL- renal plasma clearance
0  cards
RENAL- structure and function of the renal tubule
0  cards
RENAL- acid base balance
0  cards
RENAL- micturition and incontinence
0  cards
RENAL- acute renal disease
Define acute kidney injury,
How is an aki clinically manifested,
Why is an aki an important problem
14  cards
RENAL- drugs on the kidney
0  cards
RENAL- public health issues of chronic kidney disease
How is ckd identified,
How many stages of kidney disease...,
What is stage 1 kidney disease
13  cards
RENAL- potassium balance
What are the roles of potassium i...,
List some sources of dietary pota...,
Define hypokalaemia
6  cards
RENAL- salt water balance
0  cards
RENAL- overview of renal disease
0  cards
GENO- structure and function of the human genome
Describe the structure of dna,
Describe the structure of chromos...,
Describe the 4 types of chromosome
15  cards
GENO- Transmission of genetic information
What is the central dogma,
What is the role of rna polymerase,
How is rna polymerase able to bin...
14  cards
GENO- sequence variation
Define synonymous mutation,
Define non synonymous mutation,
What is a frameshift vs non frame...
13  cards
GENO- structural chromosomal abnormalities
What are the types of structural ...,
What is meant by translocation st...,
How does tetravalence occur
28  cards
GENO- numerical chromosomal abnormalities
Outline the process of mitosis,
Outline the process of meiosis,
Describe a normal human karyotype
17  cards
GENO- Clinical consequences of chromosomal disorders
Give some examples of aneuploidy ...,
Give an example of microdeletion ...,
How can translocation produce gen...
17  cards
GENO- patterns of inheritance
Define autosomal dominant and giv...,
Define autosomal recessive and gi...,
Define x linked and give an example
11  cards
GENO- using DNA sequencing to diagnose single gene disorders
0  cards
GENO- alternative genetic mechanisms of disease causation
0  cards
GENO- inherited cancer genetics
0  cards
GENO- genomic data in cancer management
0  cards
GENO- ethical and societal implications of genomics
0  cards
GENO- the future of genomics in healthcare
0  cards

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