Biochemistry
This is the main site of glucose synthesis, i.e., gluconeogenesis in the body.
What is the liver?
The vertebral level that marks the bifurcation of the common carotid arteries.
What is C4?
The capillary plasma colloid osmotic pressure (Πp), tends to cause osmosis of fluid in the following direction through the capillary membrane.
What is Inward?
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Who is Sigmund Freud?
This is the primary cellular source of histamine?
What is a mast cell?
This mechanism facilitates the “indirect” transport of Acetyl CoA from the mitochondria to the cytoplasm during fatty acid synthesis.
What is the citrate shuttle?
This nerve lies immediately medial to the brachial artery in the cubital fossa?
What is the median nerve?
The following represents an accessory route through which fluid can flow from the interstitial spaces into the blood.
What is the Lymphatic System?
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Who is Louis Pasteur?
This is the dominant cell type in an inflammatory infiltrate during the first 24-48 hours.
What is a monocyte?
In the mitochondria, this complex series of reactions generates several reduced coenzymes and GTP, but it does not directly produce ATP.
What is the TCA cycle?
The end of the adductor canal is at a hiatus which is a space in this muscle.
What is the adductor magnus?
Most of the fluid filtering from the arterial ends of blood capillaries flows among the cells and finally is reabsorbed back into the venous ends of the blood capillaries but, on average, the following amount of the fluid instead enters the lymphatic capillaries and returns to the blood through the lymphatic system rather than through the venous capillaries.
What is One tenth?
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Who is Hippocrates?
Superoxide dismutase generates this from superoxide.
What is hydrogen peroxide?
This “cargo truck” transports two carbons during both the synthesis and degradation (beta oxidation) of fatty acids.
What is acetyl CoA?
The structure through which the peritoneal sac enters the inguinal canal in an indirect inguinal hernia.
What is the deep inguinal ring?
VSDs are incomplete closures of the ventricular septum, allowing free communication of blood between the where?
What are Left to right ventricles?
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Who is Alexander Fleming?
This growth factor recruits smooth muscle cells during angiogenesis.
What is platelet-derived growth factor?
This process is prominent in amino acid metabolism, yet it does not generate free ammonia. Instead, it facilitates the transfer of a donor amino group to an acceptor keto acid.
What is transamination?
This blood vessel gives rise to the right vertebral artery.
What is the right subclavian artery?
The ductus arteriosus arises from the following vessel and joins the aorta just distal to the origin of the left subclavian artery.
What is Pulmonary artery?
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Who is Rosalind Franklin?
This is the most common inherited cause of hypercoagulability.
What is a factor V Leiden mutation?