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1
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Disulphiram (antabuse)

A

Inhibits aldehyde dehydrogenase

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2
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Intraepithelial lymphocytes contain mainly what cell from the adaptive immune response

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CD8+ TCells

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3
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Metformin does what (biguinides)

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Supressing glucose production

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4
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Prostaglandin inhibits parietal cell secretion by

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Binding and subsequent activation of an inhibitory G protein (Gi), which in turn inhibits activation of adenylate cyclase

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5
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Smoking may help what GI disease

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UC

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6
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What IBD has histological findings of Crypt abscesses, loss of goblet cells, mucosal or submucosal inflammation and gland preservation

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UC

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7
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What IBD would have histological findings of Granulomas, transmural inflammation, gland preservation and aphthous ulceration

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Crohns

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8
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What is bilirubin conjugated with in the liver, and what does it form after transport to the gut via bile?

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Glucoronic acid

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9
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Diabetic retinopathy mechanism?

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Damaged basement membrane & increased permeability of retinal capillaries leading to small haemorrhages. New vessel formation, possibly due to hypoxia from tissue disturbances.

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10
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Two ways nerves affected by diabetes?

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Damage to the small blood vessels surrounding the sheath

Accumulation of sorbitol and fructose in schwann cells which disrupts function and structure, and leads to demyelination

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11
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What would you look for in an endoscopic biopsy to determine Coeliac disease

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villous atrophy

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12
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What is segmentation?

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Mixing of foodstuffs with digestive enzymes

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13
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What is the migrating motor complex?

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Clearance of residual substances

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14
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Where is meckels diverticulum found?

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Ileum

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15
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Where are plicae circulares found?

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jejunum

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16
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After rotation what happens to the vitelline duct?

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It degenerates

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17
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Lesser omentum is derived from where?

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Dorsal mesentary

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18
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parasympathetic stimulation produces what type of saliva?

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Watery

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19
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Sympathetic saliva?

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Mucous and thick

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20
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Regarding insulin secretion what does somatostatin do?

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Supresses insulin secretion

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21
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What can be used as a marker of endogenous insulin production?

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C-peptide

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22
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Glucagon-like intestinal peptide 1 (GLP-1) does what?

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Secreted from the gut and drives insulin production

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23
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What does glucagon do in the liver?

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Increases gluconeogenisis

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24
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What increases membrane levels of glut 4?

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Insulin

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25
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The rate limiting step in the urea cycle is?

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Carbomoyl phosphate synthase

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26
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Ghrelin does what in the stomach?

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Released to enhance hunger

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27
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Leptin is released from where and does what>

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Adipocytes to supress hunger

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28
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Alpha malanocyte stimulating hormone does what?

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Acts in hypothalamus to supress hunger

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29
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Neuropeptide Y does what?

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Acts in hypothalamus to stimulate hunger

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30
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Peptide YY is released where and does what?

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Colon, to supress hunger, also colonic brake

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31
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gastrin is a homologue of what?

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CCK

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32
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What is growth hoirmone

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peptide hormone

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33
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growth hormone affects plasma glucose how?

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tend to increase

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34
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what level is the rectosigmoid junction?

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S3

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35
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T3 and T4 have how many residues of what element

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iodine respectively

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36
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T4 is converted to the more active?

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T3

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37
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Low Thyroid levels can cause what?

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Goitre

38
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Which hepatitis does not cause cirrhosis?

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Hep A

39
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Crohns disease is patchy or continuous?

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patchy

40
Q

Crypt abscess formation is indicative of what?

A

UC

41
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Inflammation of entire intestinal wall indicative of/

A

Crohns

42
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Toxic megacolon may occur in which condition?

A

UC

43
Q

Poor wound healing is typical of type what diabetes?

A

2

44
Q

Glucosuria is accompanied by what in type 1 diabetes>

A

ketonurea

45
Q

Type one is in south asian populations? ture of false

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False usually type 2

46
Q

Family history of diabetes is more common in which type?

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2

47
Q

Meckels diverticulum is usually symptomatic in how many cases?

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2%

48
Q

Volvulus of the midgut is associated with what?

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Billious vomiting

49
Q

Haem is metabolised to billirubin where?

A

kuppfer cells of liver but also the spleen

50
Q

Uncouplers allow electron transport to continue without what?

A

Phosphorylation

51
Q

Cyanide inhibits the ETC by doing what?

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blocking the release of electrons to oxygen at complex IV

52
Q

NADH donates electrons at complex …?

A

I

53
Q

Energy donated by electrons to complexes I III and IV is used to transport what?

A

H+ ions from mitochondrial matrix to intermembrane space

54
Q

Liver produces bile in what week?

A

12

55
Q

Intra epithelia lymphocytes are mainly what type?

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CD8

56
Q

Lamina propria contains what types of immune cells

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Blympho, cd4 t lympho and mast cells

57
Q

The sphincter of oddi relaxes in response to what?

A

CCK-z

58
Q

CCK comes from which cells?

A

I cells

59
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CCK A receptor for

A

CCK

60
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Growth hormone is supressed by what?

A

Somatostatin

61
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CCk B receptor for

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gastrin

62
Q

what happens in the cori cycle?

A

Lactic acid is sent back to the liver to be made into glucose

63
Q

Hexokinase does what for what reason?

A

converts glucose into glucose-6 phosphate stops it leaving the cell

64
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Aldolase does what to fructose 1,6 biphosphate

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splits into 2 X 3C

65
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when split into 2 what is the useful 3C product?

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glyceraldehyde 3 phosphate

66
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ATP is generated when in glycolysis?

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making 3 phospho glycerate and when making pyruvate!

67
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irreversible steps of glycolysis?

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hexokinase, phophofructokinase and pyruvate kinase

68
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how many ATP from aerobic glycolysis?

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2ATP per glucose

69
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absence of oxygen pyruvate =

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lactate then cori cycle to become pyruvate again then glucose

70
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glucose 6 phosphate to glucose 1 phosphate is what?

A

glycogen synthesis

71
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is atp require to converts glycogen to glucose 1 phosphate/6 phosphate in liver and koidney?

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No!

72
Q

High insulin stimulates what?

A

glycolysis

73
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high glucagon inhibits?

A

glycolysis

74
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carnitine transports fatty acids where?

A

across mitochondiral membrane

75
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one palmitoyl coa produces how many ATP

A

108!!

76
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ketone bodies are formed from what?

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excess acety coA in mitochondria of liver

77
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the brain can use ketone bodies true or false?

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true

78
Q

what stage of cholersterol sye?nthesis control the rat

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acetyl coa to mevalonate

79
Q

cytosol and smooth ER are sites for what syntesis>

A

cholesterol

80
Q

can cholesterol be broken down?

A

no only excretedd in faecaes

81
Q

foam cells do what?

A

eat fats create plaques

82
Q

Apoe 4 increases risk of what?

A

alzheimers

83
Q

ethanol produces large amounts of what?

A

NADH

84
Q

turnover of ATP is how ,much?

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75kg/day

85
Q

uncouplers can be weak what?

A

Acids

86
Q

can NADH cross inner membrane

A

no

87
Q

NAdh is oxidised in the cytosol and reduced in the?

A

matrix

88
Q

energy from proton gradients is used to do what in the ETC

A

phosphorylate ADP

89
Q

which hormone is released pulsatile

A

Growth hormone and at night

90
Q

diabetogenic affects seen in what?

A

growth hormone

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