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1
Q

What are the 3 secondary structures?

A

Alpha helix

Beta sheet

Beta bend

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2
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What is the charge of acidic side chains?

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Negative

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3
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What is the backbone of DNA called?

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Deoxyribose-phosphate backbone

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4
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What joins amino acids together?

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Peptide bonds

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5
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What are the different protein structures?

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Primary

Secondary

Tertiary

Quarternary

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6
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What is the process of forming glycoproteins called?

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Glycosylation

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7
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What is collagen composed of?

A

(glycine - x - proline)n

Where x can be:

Alanine

Hydroxyproline

Lysine

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8
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What percentage of body weight does water make up?

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60%

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9
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What is the cytoskeleton made of?

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Microfilaments

Intermediate filament

Microtubules

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10
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Whare are microfilaments made of?

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Actin

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11
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What are intermediate filaments made of?

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Fibrous proteins

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12
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What are microtubules made of?

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Tubulin

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13
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What is the difference between trans and cis?

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Cis is symettrical

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14
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What is the KW of water?

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1 x 1014 mol/L

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15
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What are examples of important buffers?

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Bicarbonate

Phosphate

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16
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How much Na and K does each molecule of ATP allow through the pump?

A

3 Na

2K

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17
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What is the osmolarity of the plasma?

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385 mOsmols/L

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18
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What is the difference between the absolute refractory period and the relative refractory period?

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Absolute is when all gates are opened and excitability is low

Relative is when gates are closed and excitability is increasing

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19
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What are examples of alpha, beta and C waves?

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Alpha - proprioception, touch, fast pain

Beta - preganglionic autonomic fibres

C - heat, slow pain

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20
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What is acetylcholine removed from the NMJ by?

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Acetylcholinesterase

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21
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What is the cofactor?

A

Non protein component needed for activity

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22
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What is the co enzyme?

A

Complex organic molecule usually produced from a vitamin

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23
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What is FAD derived from?

A

Riboflavin

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24
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What is NAD derived from?

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Niacin

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25
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What is the prosthetic group?

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Cofactor covalently bound to enzyme

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26
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What is the apoenzyme?

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Protein component of enzyme that contains a cofactor

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27
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What is the difference between lyases and ligases?

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Lygases form or add to double bonds

Liases form C-C, C-S, C-O or C-N bonds

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28
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Where is hexokinase and glucokinase found?

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Glucokinase - liver

Hexokinase - everywhere else

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29
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What is KM and what does it indicate?

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Concentration of the substrate at half the max v

High KM indicates a low affinity

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30
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What do the X and Y intersections on a Lineweaver-Burk plot represent?

A

Y - 1/vmax

X - 1/KM

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31
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What can you say about the first and second steps on an enzyme controlled reaction?

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First is reversible

Second is rate limiting

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32
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What is an example of an enzyme that uses a sequential mechanism?

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Lactate dehydrogenase (pyruvate to lactate)

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33
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What is an example of an enzyme that uses a random sequential mechanism?

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Creatine kinase (creatine to phosphokinase)

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34
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What is an example of an enzyme that uses no ternary complex formation?

A

Asparate aminotransferases

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35
Q

What is used to show enzyme mechanisms?

A

Cleland notation

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36
Q

What is connective tissue composed of?

A

Ground substance

Collagen

Elastin

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37
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What is the ground substance composed of?

A

Glycoproteins and carbs

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38
Q

Where are desmosome junctions found?

A

Cardiac muscle

Bladder

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39
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Where are tight junctions found?

A

Intestine and stomach

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40
Q

Where are gap junctions found?

A

Cardial and neurons

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41
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What is the basement membrane composed of?

A

Basal lamina

Reticular lamina

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42
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What is the basal lamina?

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Secreted by epithelial cells which they sit on

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43
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What is the reticular lamina?

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Connects basal lamina to underlying connective tissue

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44
Q

What are the 2 kinds of glands?

A

Exocrine

Endocrine

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45
Q

What do exocrine glands do?

A

Secrete into tubes

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46
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What do endocrine glands do?

A

Secrete into the blood

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47
Q

What are the 2 kinds of ducts from exocrine glands?

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Simple (unbranched)

Compound (branched)

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48
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What are the 2 kinds of excretory components of exocrine glands?

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Tubular

Accinar

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49
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What are the 3 kinds of secretion from a gland?

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Merocrine

Apocrine

Halocrine

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50
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What is merocrine?

A

Exocytosis

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51
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What is apocrine?

A

Discharge vesicles

Example is sweat glands

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52
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What is halocrine?

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Discharge whole cell

Example is sebaceous gland

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53
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What cells produce the secretions within glands?

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Myoepithelial cells once they contract

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54
Q

What is the thyroid gland special?

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Contains follicles of hormones (thyroxine) which is reabsorbed before being released into the blood

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55
Q

What is a single celled gland?

A

Goblet gland

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56
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What are examples of exocrine organs?

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Liver

Major silival gland

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57
Q

What are examples of endocrine organs?

A

Thyroid

Adrenal

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58
Q

What is the pancreas an example of?

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An endocrine and exocrine organ

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59
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What is an example of loose connective tissue?

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Adipose

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60
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What are the 3 components of connective tissue?

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Fibres

Tissue fluid

Ground substance

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61
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What are examples of different collagens and where are they found?

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Type I in tendons

Type III in reticular lamina

Type IV in basil lamina

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62
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What is collagen and elastin secreted by?

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Connective tissue

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63
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What does loose connective tissue do?

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Attach epithelial to underlying tissue

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64
Q

What are 4 cells permanent cells in loose connective tissue?

A

FIbroblasts

Macrophages

Adipocytes

Mast cells

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65
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What is an example of a dense regular connective tissue?

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Tendons

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66
Q

What is an example of a dense irregular connective tissue?

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Subacceous gland

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67
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What are some proteins usually coupled to G proteins?

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Adrenylyl cyclase

Phospholipase C

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68
Q

Where is Ca stored?

A

Endoplasmic reticulum

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69
Q

What is EC50?

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Concentration of a drug to produce half the maximum effect

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70
Q

What are fibrous joints made of?

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Dense fibrous connective tissue

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71
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What are the 4 basic cells in the epidermis?

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Dendritic cells

Karatinocytes

Melanocytes

Merket cells

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72
Q

What are merkel cells?

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Touch receptors

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73
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What are the 5 layers of the epidermis?

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Stratum basule

Stratum spinosum

Statum glanulosum

Stratum lucadum

Stratum corneum

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74
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What happens in the stratum basule?

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Continuous proliferation

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75
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What happens in the stratum spinosum?

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Cells shrink

Desmosome junctions create ‘spikes’

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76
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What is in the statum granulosum?

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Granules of keratohyaline

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77
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What happens in the stratum lucadum?

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Conversion of keratohyaline to keratine

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78
Q

What is unique about the statum corneum?

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No organelles

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79
Q

Where are melanocytes and merkel cells?

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Stratum basule

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80
Q

What binds cells of the stratum basule to the basement membrane?

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Hemidesmosomes

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81
Q

What gives strength to the stratum lucidum?

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Disulphide bridges

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82
Q

What are the 2 layers of the dermis?

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Papillary layer

Reticular layer

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83
Q

What is the papillary layer?

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Loose connective tissue that protects against pathogens

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84
Q

What is the reticular layer?

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Dense irregular connective tissue that attaches the skin to underlying tissues

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85
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What is found in the papilary layer?

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Macrophages

Blood vessels

Nerve endings

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86
Q

What is unique about the subbaceous gland?

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Only gland to secrete directly into the hair follicle

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87
Q

What are the 3 important hexoses?

A

Glucose

Fructose

Galactose

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88
Q

What are disaccharides linked by?

A

Glycosidic bonds

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89
Q

What is the only carbon that can be oxidised?

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Anomeric carbon

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90
Q

What are 3 important dissacharides?

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Maltose

Lactose

Succrose

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91
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What is maltose formed from?

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Glucose and glucose

92
Q

What is lactose formed from?

A

Glucose and galactose

93
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What is succrose formed from?

A

Glucose and fructose

94
Q

What are the 2 glucose monomers in starch?

A

Amylase (alpha 1-4)

Amylopectin (alpha 1-4 and alpha 1-6)

95
Q

What are glycoaminoglycans?

A

Unbranched polymers made from repeating units of hexuronic acid and an amino sugar

96
Q

What is a property of glycaaminoglycans and where are they found?

A

Sticky and slimy, found in synovial fluid

97
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What is a proteoglycan?

A

Formed from GAGs and proteins, more carbs than protein

98
Q

What are mucopolysaccharides?

A

Genetic disorders caused by absence of the enzyme that breaks down glucoaminoglycans (GAGs)

99
Q

Where are carbohydrates digested?

A

Mouth

Jejanum

Duodenum

100
Q

What enzyme acts on carbohydrates in the mouth?

A

Silivary amylase which breaks down alpha 1-4

101
Q

What is the breakdown of carbohydrates like in the duodenum?

A

Similar to the mouth

102
Q

What are some enzymes that break down carbohydrates in the jejunum?

A

Isomaltose (hydrolyses alpha 1-6)

Glucamylase (removes glucose from non reducing end)

Sucrase (hydrolysis succrose)

Lactase (hydrolysis lactase)

103
Q

How is glucose absorbed?

A

Driven by Na pump:

1) Taken into gut epithelium by glucose transporter (2Na and 1 glucose in)
2) Passes down concentration gradient into the blood

104
Q

What can you say about cellulose and hemicellulose?

A

Cannot be digested so are broken down by gut bacteria, producing methane and hydrogen (smelly farts)

105
Q

What is glucose immediately changed into in the liver and why?

A

Glucose-6-phosphate so it doesnt leave the cell

106
Q

What is the reaction of glucose to glucose-6-phosphate controlled by?

A

Glucokinase in the liver

Hexokinase everywhere else

107
Q

What controls the reaction of glucose-6-phosphate to glucose?

A

Glucose-6-phosphatase

108
Q

What is the process of the synthesis of glycogen?

A

1) Glycogenin covalently binds glucose from uracil diphosphate (UDP) glucose to form a chain of about 8 monomers
2) Glycogen synthase extends the chain
3) Glycogen branching enzymes break chain and reattach alpha 1-6
4) Glycogen synthase takes over again

109
Q

What is the process of the degradation of glycogen?

A

1) Glucose monomers removed 1 at a time from non reducing end by glycogen phosphorylase to produce G-1-P
2) Branch removed by debranching enzyme
a) Transferase removes 3 glucose monomers and attaches them to nearest non-reducing end by alpha 1-4 bond
b) Glucosidase removes final glucose monomer by breaking alpha 1-6 and releasing a free glucose
3) Process repeats

110
Q

What are the 2 phases of glycolysis?

A

Preparative phase (2 molecules of G-3-P produced from G-6-P, using 2 ATP)

Payoff phase (1 molecule of pyruvate made per G-3-P, making 4 ATP)

111
Q

What are the 3 steps of glycolysis that are irreversible?

A

Step 1 (glucose to glucose-6-phosphate)

Step 3 (F-6-P to F-1,6,bisP)

Step 10 (transfer of P from PEP to ADP, producing pyruvate)

112
Q

What is the first commited step of glycolysis?

A

Step 3 (F-6-P to F-1, 6bisP)

113
Q

What do all fates of glycolysis regenerate?

114
Q

What enzyme controls the reation of pyruvate to lactate?

A

Lactate dehydrogenase

115
Q

What happens to lactate at the end of the cori cycle?

A

Transfered to liver and convered to pyruvate for gluconeogenesis

116
Q

Where does glycolysis happen?

117
Q

Where does the reaction pyruvate to acetyl coA happen?

A

Mitochondria

118
Q

Where is the enzyme that controls pyruvate to acetyl coA?

A

Pyruvate dehydrogenase

119
Q

What are tissues that completely rely on glycolysis?

A

Brain

Nervous tissue

RBCs

Testis

Embryonic tissue

120
Q

What is the reaction gluconeogenesis uses to bypass step 10 of glycolysis?

A

1) Pyruvate to oxaloacetate (controled by pyruvate carboxylase)
2) Oxaloacetate to PEP (controlled by PEP carboxylase)

121
Q

Where is G-6-P converted into glucose?

A

Endoplasmic reticulum (G-6-P shuttled in and glucose and Pi shuttled out)

122
Q

What enzyme controls F-1,6-bisP to F-6-P?

A

Fructose-1,6-biphosphotase

123
Q

Where can fructose enter glycolysis?

A

Liver (dihydroxyacetone phosphate (DHAP) or glyceraldehyde - phosphate (GAP))

Adipose tissue (F-6-P)

124
Q

Where can galactose enter glycolysis?

125
Q

What does the pentose phosphate pathway produce?

A

Pentose

NADPH

126
Q

What are the 2 stages of the pentose phosphate pathway?

A

1) Oxidation (irreversible)
2) Non oxidation (reversible)

127
Q

What happens in the oxidation stage of the pentose phosphate pathway?

A

1) Generates NADPH
2) Converts G-6-P to pentose phosphate

128
Q

What happens in the non oxidative stage of the pentose phospahte pathway?

A

Produces lots of 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 carbon sugars

129
Q

What does breaking ethanol down require?

130
Q

What do low levels of NAD lead to?

A

Increased blood lactate

Decrease blood glucose

131
Q

What is vitamin C?

A

Monosaccharide

132
Q

Where does the CIC happen?

A

Mitochondrial matrix

133
Q

What does the CAC do?

A

Removes electrons from intermediates and passes them onto NAD and FAD

Each time 2C enters (acetly coA) and 2C leaves

134
Q

What is pyruvate dehydrogenase inhibited by?

A

Acetyl coA

ATP

NADH

135
Q

What is pyruvate dehydrogenase activated by?

A

Pyruvate

ADP

136
Q

What are the enzymes that control the 2 irreversible steps in the CAC?

A

Isocitrate dehydrogenase

a-ketoglutamate dehydrogenase

137
Q

Which of NADH and FADH2 cannot cross the mitochondrial membrane?

A

NADH cannot

138
Q

How does NADH in the cytoplasm pass its electrons into the electron transport chain?

A

Glycerol phosphate shuttle

139
Q

What is the process of the glycerol phosphate shuttle?

A

1) NADH passes electrons onto dihydroxyacetone phosphate which becomes glycerol-3-phosphate
2) Crosses outer membrane and passes electrons onto FAD which becomes FADH2
3) Enters electron transport chain

140
Q

How many proteins are in the electron transport chain?

A

4

NADH-Q Oxidoreductase

Succinate-Q Reductase

Q-Cytochrome C Oxidoreductase

Cytochrome C Oxidases

141
Q

What does the first protein of the ETC do?

A

Oxidise NADH and pass electons onto ubiquinone which becomes ubiquinol

Pumps H+ into intermembrane space

Uses Fe-S centres

142
Q

What does the second protein of the ETC do?

A

Oxidises FADH2 and passes its electrons onto ubiquinone which becomes ubiquinol

Fe-S centres

Haem group captures stray electrons

143
Q

What does the third protein of the ETC do?

A

Transfers electrons from ubiquinol to cytochrome C

Pumps protons into intermembrane space

144
Q

How much cytochrome C does 1 ubiquinol make?

A

2 molecules

145
Q

What does the fourth protein of the ETC do?

A

Passes electrons from cytochrome C to O2

Pumps protons into intermembrane space

Fe-Cu centres

146
Q

What proteins of the ETC pump protons?

A

1, 3 and 4

147
Q

What are the 2 parts of ATPsynthase?

A

F0 (membrane bound protein)

F1 (protrudes into mitochondrial matrix)

148
Q

How many subunits does F0 have?

149
Q

What is the process of ATPsynthase?

A

1) ADP and Pi enter beta subunit of F1
2) Rotation of F0 and gamma shaft causes conformation change in beta subunit
3) Catalysis ADP and Pi to ATP

150
Q

When does ATPsynthase rotate?

A

When 3 H+ enters

151
Q

How much H+ is needed to generate 1 molecule of ATP?

152
Q

How much ATP does NADH and FADH2 generate

A

NADH generates 2.5 per molecule

FADH2 generates 1.5 per molecule

153
Q

What does uncoupling of the ETC cause?

A

Generation of heat instead of energy, as seen in brown fat

154
Q

What are the 5 classes of lipids?

A

Fatty acids

Triacyglycerols

Phospholipids

Glycolipids

Steroids

155
Q

What is an example of lipid naming?

A

18:3 (9, 12, 15)

18 carbon long, 3 double bonds after carbon 9, 12 and 15

156
Q

Why can essential fatty acids not be synthesised?

A

We cannot intoduce double carbon bonds after carbon 9

157
Q

What is omega 3 derived from?

A

Linolenic acid

158
Q

What is digestion of lipids by pancreatic enzymes (lipases) promoted by?

A

Emulsufication by bile salts and peristalsis

159
Q

What are bile salts a derivitive of?

A

Cholesterol

160
Q

What is triacyglycerol degraded to in the small intestine?

A

2 fatty acids and a monoacylglycerol

161
Q

What is cholesterol digested into?

A

Cholesterol and a fatty acid

162
Q

What are phospholipids digested into?

A

Lysophospholid and a fatty acid

163
Q

What is the process of digesting lipids?

A

1) Fats become emulsified in duodenum due to bile
2) roken down into fatty acids and glycerol in small intestine

164
Q

What is the uptake of digested lipids in the small intestine?

A

1) Forms micelles with bile salt, which releases the lipids near the membrane which diffuse accross

Short and medium chain fatty acids do not need micelles

165
Q

What happens to lipids that have been absorbed in the small intestine?

A

1) Resynthesised by intestinal epithelium cells for export
2) Packaged with apoB-48 into chylomicrons
3) Released by exocytosis into the lymph and then the blood

166
Q

What happens to chylomicrons once they reach tissue?

A

1) Hydrolysid to fatty acid and glycerol by lipoprotein lipase
2) Used for energy or reesterfication to triacyglycerol for storage

167
Q

What happens to chylomicron renmants?

A

Go to the liver where glycerol is used to produce glycerol-3-phosphate

168
Q

What causes fatty acid to be released from adipose tissue?

A

Hormone sensitive lipase being activated by noradrenaline

169
Q

What is hormone sensitive lipase deactivated by?

A

High plasma glucose

Insulin

170
Q

What are examples of lipoproteins that carry lipids in the blood?

A

Chylomicron

VLDL

LDL

HDL

171
Q

What is VLDL do?

A

Transfers tracyglycerol from liver to tissue

172
Q

What does beta oxidation produce?

A

Acetyl coA

FADH2

NADH

173
Q

Where does beta oxidation occur?

A

Mitochondrial matrix

174
Q

What are the 3 stages of beta oxidation?

A

1) Activation of fatty acid in cytosol
2) Transport into mitochondria
3) Degradation to acetyl coA

175
Q

What do fatty acids form when they are activated and what enzyme controls this?

A

Fatty acid and acetly co A becomes fatty acyl coA (enzyme is acyl coA synthase)

176
Q

What does fatty acid use to enter the mitochonrial matrix?

A

Carnitine shuttle

177
Q

What is the process of the carnitine shuttle?

A

1) Carnitine reacts with fatty acyl coA to produce acyl carnitine which crosses membrane
2) Acyl carnitine reacts with coA to produce fatty acyl coA
3) Carnitine returns to cytosol

178
Q

What are the enzymes used in the carnitine shuttle?

A

Carnitine palmityl transferase I and II

179
Q

What inhibits carnitine palmityl transferase?

180
Q

What does not need to use the carnitine shuttle?

A

Short and medium chain fatty acids

181
Q

What does each stage of beta oxidation produce?

A

1 acetyl coA

Carbon species 2 shorter

1 NADH

1 FADH2

182
Q

What is the net yield of ATP for beta oxidation?

A

129 molecules

183
Q

What happens when you are starving?

A

1) Liver flooded with acetyl coA
2) Inhibits pyruvate dehydrogenase and activates pyruvate carboxylase (pyruvate to oxaloacetate)
3) Produces glucose through gluconeogenesis

184
Q

What is excess acetyl coA converted into?

185
Q

Where are ketones made?

A

Mitochondrial matrix of liver

186
Q

What cannot use ketones for energy?

187
Q

What cannot use fatty acids for energy?

188
Q

Where does fatty acid synthesis occur?

189
Q

How does acetyl coA get to the cytosol for fatty acid synthesis?

A

Citrate shuttle

190
Q

What is the process of the citrate shuttle?

A

1) Acetyl coA reacts with oxaloacetate to become citrate which crosses the membrane
2) Citrate broken down to acetyl coA and oxaloacetate in cytosol
3) Oxaloacetate uses NADH to become malate
4) Malate uses NAD to become pyruvate to cross into matrix
5) Pyruvate converted to oxaloacetate

191
Q

What is produed in the citrate shuttle?

A

NADPH which is used later for fatty acid synthesis

192
Q

What is the product of fatty acid synthesis?

A

Palmitic acid

193
Q

What is the rate determining step in fatty acid synthesis?

A

Acetyl coA and ATP to melonyl coA (catalysed by acetyl coA carboxylase)

194
Q

What is acetyl coA carboxylase activated and inhibited by?

A

Activated by insulin

Inhibited by palmitoyl coA, glucagon and noradrenaline

195
Q

How much NADPH does the formation of palmitic acid uses and where does it come from?

A

14 from citrate shuttle and pentose phosphate pathway

196
Q

What are some specialised lipid classes?

A

Steroid hormones

Cholesterol

Eicosanoids

197
Q

What is cholesterol used to make?

A

Steroid hormones and membranes

198
Q

What are eicosanoids derived from?

A

Omega 3 and omega 6

199
Q

What does nitrogen to other molecule flow through?

200
Q

What is transanimation?

A

Transfering amino groups through different molecules

201
Q

What do all amino transfers rely on?

A

Pyridoxal phosphate cofactor (transfers amino group, derived from vitamin B6)

202
Q

What is the proces of dietry proteins being broken down?

A

1) Pepsin cuts proteins into peptides in the stomach
2) Trypsin and chymotrypin cut proteins and large peptides into smaller peptides in the small intestine
3) Aminopeptidases and carboxypipdases A and B degrade peptides into amino acids in small intestine

203
Q

What tages cellular proteins that are to be degraded?

204
Q

What are the fates of amino acids?

A

Left in tack for biosynthesis

Broken down into carbon skeleton and amino group

205
Q

What is the fate of an amino group from a broken down protein?

A

Nitrogen disposed by urea cycle

206
Q

What are the possible fates of carbon skeletons?

A

Glucose or glycogen synthesis

Cellular respiration

Fatty acid synthesis

207
Q

What is amonia transported through the bloodstream as?

208
Q

What is pyruvate converted into once it donates it accepts an amino group?

209
Q

What is the pyruvate - alanine cycle?

A

1) Protein broken down in exercise if required
2) Transported to liver as alanine
3) Carbon skeleton converted to pyruvate
4) Nitrogen excreted as ammonia in urine
5) Pyruvate to oxaloacetate to glucose (gluconeogensis)

210
Q

What are the 2 nitrogen acquiring reactions of glutamate being broken down in the liver?

A

1) Synthesis of carbamoyl phosphate
2) Entry of asparate into urea cycle

211
Q

How many amino acids are essential?

212
Q

What are the 2 kinds of carbon skeletons?

A

Glucogenic (feeds into gluconeogenesis)

Ketogenic (feeds into CAC)

213
Q

Where does the urea cycle happen?

A

Split between mitochondrial matrix and cytosol

214
Q

What goes in and out of the urea cycle?

A

Ammonia goes in and urea comes out

215
Q

How many enzymes are involved in the urea cycle?

216
Q

What is the most common urea cycle defect?

A

UTC difficiency (X linked)

217
Q

What is PKU?

A

Absence/difficiency of phenylalanine hydroxylase, causing a build up of phenylalanine levels which is toxic

218
Q

What receptors does the autonomic and somatic nervous systems use?

A

Somatic uses iatotropic

Autonomic uses metatropic (G proteins)

219
Q

What kinds of receptors does acetylcholine act on?

A

Cholinergenic:

Nicotinic (2)

Muscarinic (3)

220
Q

What receptors does noradrenaline act on?

A

Adrenic:

Alpha (2)

Beta (3)

221
Q

How does the adrenal medulla work?

A

Sympathetic fibres innervate it and cause it to release adrenaline and noradrenaline into the blood

222
Q

What are examples of post ganglionic fibres not following the rules?

A

Sympathetic cholinergic fibres innervate sweat glands

Some release neurotransmitters like peptides or NO

223
Q

What is an example of antagonistic innervation of the autonomic nervous system?

224
Q

What is an example of single innervation of the autonomic nervous system?

A

Energy stores

225
Q

What is an example of dual innervation with non-antagonistic actions of the autonomic nervous system?

A

Salivary glands

226
Q

What is an example of dual innervation with complimentary effects of the autonomic nervous system?

A

Reproductuve tract

227
Q

What controls the autonomic nervous system?

A

Hypothalamus

Reflexes

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