Week 1
Name the plasma protein that maintains osmotic pressure and helps to transport lipid-soluble substances (and some drugs).
Albumin
These capillaries have an incomplete basement membrane, allow exchange of large macromolecules and cells, and are only found in liver, bone marrow, spleen, and adrenal medulla. What type is it?
Sinusoidal/discontinuous
The closure of the atrioventricular valves indicates the beginning of ____ and is the ____ heart sound
1. systole
2. S1
1. Amino Acids
2. future RBCs
3. bilirubin
In the large veins (SVC/IVC) smooth muscle is arranged longitudinally in the ______ and some smooth muscle cells are arranged circumferentially in the _____.
1. tunica adventitia
2. tunica media
3 Key features of muscle contraction.
1. Requires microscopic protein filaments to slide against each other.
2. Requires calcium to enable the microscopic filaments to interlink.
3. Always requires a depolarisation event.
A pedigree shows males & females affected in equal proportions, affected individuals are usually only in a single generation, and transmission occurs by individuals of BOTH sexes. What is the likely mode of inheritance?
Autosomal Recessive
Alanine, Glutamine, and Glycine are examples of?
Non-essential amino acids
Absorbed cholesterol is esterified by _______ to cholesterol esters (CE)
acyl-CoA cholesterol acyl transferase (ACAT)
Authoritative, Authoritarian, Permissive and Uninvolved are examples of?
Parenting Styles
These are located in the medulla and monitor chemical composition of the blood.
Central chemoreceptors
Chronic adrenergic antagonist use causes _____
an increase in receptor numbers/up-regulation of post-synaptic receptors
Haemophilia is an example of a ______ pattern, meaning that ____ are more likely to be affected. (SGL Week 1)
1. X-linked recessive
2. men
This blood product helped to replace Dean's lost RBCs. (SGL - Week 2).
Packed Red Blood Cells
Myocardial infarctions (MI) are confirmed by testing for the presence of which cardiac biomarker in the blood? (SGL - Week 3)