Immunology
A component of innate immunity that bores holes into bacteria and other pathogens to destroy them
What is complement?
This method is a cheap and easy standard for performing antibiotic susceptibility testing using an agar plate and small paper disks soaked in antibiotic
What is Kirby Bauer?
This is the functional unit of the kidney.
What is the nephron?
Cholecalciferol
What is Vitamin D3?
What is protoporphyrin IX?
A substance used to enhance the reaction to a vaccine
What is an adjuvant?
Shaped like seagull wings, this organism is commonly acquired from eating undercooked chicken
What is Campylobacter?
The cycle in which certain hormones, such as leptin, melatonin, and cortisol, change in plasma concentration throughout a day.
What is diurnal rhythm?
Riboflavin
What is Vitamin B2?
The most prominent cell line found in polycythemia vera.
Also called anti-cardiolipin antibody, testing for this substance is the first step of the forward algorithm for syphilis
What is reagin?
A softly beta hemolytic GPR that is associated with miscarriage in early pregnancy
What is Listeria monocytogenes?
The physiologically active hormones that are released from the thyroid.
What are free T3 and free T4?
Phylloquinone
What is Vitamin K1?
The coagulation factors that are vitamin K dependent.
What are factors II, VII, IX, X, protein C and S?
A substance that is too small to be an antigen on its own, but can cause immune responses when bound to a carrier molecule
What is a hapten?
The type of cell that is highly suggestive of bacterial vaginosis
What is a clue cell?
Younger individuals may be drawn for this assay early in the day to diagnose conditions related to abnormal puberty?
What is testosterone?
The most reliable test method used to quantify hemoglobin fractions in thalassemia and hemoglobinopathy.
What is HPLC?
Immunoproliferative disorder with excess IgM production that leads to hyperviscosity.
What is Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia?
The substance in the cell wall of acid fast bacilli that prevents them from staining well with Gram stain
What is mycolic acid?
What is Addison Disease?
Pantothenic Acid
What is Vitamin B5?
The diagnostic chromosome found in CML.
What is Philadelphia chromosome?