Cancer
Tumor-inducing genes that change a normal cell to a malignant one
What are oncogenes?
The basic units of heredity.
What are genes?
Pink raised, edematous, itchy areas that vary in size and shape. Skin response to an allergen.
What are wheal-and-flare responses?
Replicates backwards from RNA to DNA
What is a retrovirus?
What are standard precautions?
What is the TNM classification system?
A mutation of a single gene pair on a chromosome where a dominant allele prevails over a normal allele.
What is an autosomal dominant disorder?
Immunity present at birth
What is innate immunity?
The amount of HIV circulating in the blood.
What is viral load?
Taking antibiotics prescribed only for you and following the directions; finishing all the medications as prescribed.
What are ways patients can decrease the risk for antibiotic-resistant infections?
Changes in bowel or bladder habits, sores that don't heal, lump in breast, indigestion, and obvious change in mole.
What are the warning signs of cancer?
Mutations that occur in the DNA of a cell sometime during a person's lifetime.
What are acquired somatic mutations?
Central Lymphoid organs
What is the thymus and bone marrow?
Prevention method for people who do not have HIV but take HIV medicine to reduce risk of acquiring HIV
What is Preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP)?
A period of time after exposure that the patient may have a false negative test following exposure to HIV.
What is a window period?
Using a small-gauge needle cells are aspirated for cytologic examination.
What is fine-needle aspiration or biopsy?
People with a less active form of this enzyme may get too much of a drug
What is CYP450?
The immunoglobulin responsible for Type 1 Anaphylactic reactions
What is IgE?
Used to measure HIV progression. Normal range is 800 to 1200 cells/uL.
What is CD4 cell count?
Immune responses that we initiate through specific antigen recognition by T cells.
What is cell-mediated immunity?
I bind directly to DNA and inhibit synthesis of DNA and a side effect is orange urine.
What is Doxorubicin?
Cells that can be totipotent, pluripotent, multipotent or unipotent and can remain in a specialized state or differentiate and develop into specialized cells.
What are stem cells?
A rejection that occurs in the first 6 months after a transplant. Usually reversible with additional immunosuppresive therapy.
What is an Acute Rejection?
Class of medication that inhibits the action of reverse transciptase
What are Nonnucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors (NNRTIs)?
Done on potential donors and recipients before organ transplants. Matches of 5 or 6 antigens have better clinical outcomes
What is HLA typing?