Last Push Flashcards
Treating Alzheimer’s with a cholinesterase inhibitor (donepezil, galantamine, rivastigmine) improves memory because of its ability to target synaptic connections between what structures?
Basal forebrain (basal nucleus of Meynert) and neurons in the cerebral cortex
What nerve is most likely to be damaged by a tumor invading the right side of the pericardium?
Right phrenic nerve
What is polyglutamic acid?
Protein capsule of B. anthracis
Do blood vessels have both sympathetic and parasympathetic components?
NO - only sympathetic innervation (either vasoconstriction or lack of vasoconstriction)
How does a carotid massage work?
Increased pressure on carotid baroreceptor leads to increased firing leads to increased AV node refractory period leads to decreased heartrate (bradyarrhythmia)
Why do people pass out from carotid massage?
Bradyarrhythmia NOT blood pressure change
Why do mitochondria encode their own tRNA?
Use a non-standard genetic code
Does CHF lead to transudate or exudate?
Transudate - increased hydrostatic pressure
Which hepatic enzyme is initially activated by exercise to start glycogenolysis?
Phosphorylase kinase
When do we use chi-square vs. ANOVA?
Chi-square means categorical (chi-tegorical) outcomes vs. ANOVA for comparing means of different groups
Surgical neck of the humerus fracture - what nerve is damaged?
Axillary
What is the sensory deficit with damage to the axillary nerve?
Lateral arm
Midshaft fracture of the humerus - what nerve is damaged?
Radial
What is the sensory deficit with damage to the musculocutaneous nerve?
Lateral forearm
What do we use to classify different serogroups of neisseria meningitidis?
Antibodies to capsular polysaccharide
Pancreatic cancer - what is the most common cause of jaundice?
Common bile duct obstruction - leads to both jaundice and pale stool (bile gets into the blood but not the GI tract)
What drug can you use to treat both hypertension and Raynaud’s?
Nifedipine - use calcium channel blockers (dihydropyridine) to treat vasospasm
Oxygen hemoglobin dissociation curve shifts to the right most directly results in?
Release of oxygen in tissue capillaries (decreased affinity for oxygen)
What stimulates VEGF?
Hypoxia
What heart medication has toxicities that are mostly cholinergic mediated?
Digoxin - nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, blurry yellow vision
What are the spirochetes?
Borrelia, leptospirosis, treponema
What causes lyme disease?
Borrelia
What happens to calcium and phosphate levels in chronic renal disease/failure?
Calcium levels go down (from decrease in 1 alpha hydroxylase activity) while phosphate levels go up (from inability to excrete phosphate)
Swelling of cells in the case of ischemic damage is most directly related to?
Decrease in ATP from sarcoplasma reticulum means that Na-K pump can’t work so that Na accumulates in the cell and water moves in and cell swells
Spleen - retroperitoneal?
No so if it’s damaged, blood will be in the abdominal cavity
Tail of the pancreas - retroperitoneal?
No
Retroperitoneal structures?
SAD PUCKER: SVC, aorta, duodenum (2nd - 4th parts), pancrease (except for the tail), ureters, colon (ascending and descending), kidneys, esophagus (lower 2/3), rectum
Plasmids are transferred through what process?
Conjugation
What is ropinirole?
Non-ergot dopamine agonist (selective for D2 receptors)
GI drug that promotes gastric emptying and relieves nausea and vomiting?
Metoclopramide (D2 receptor antagonist)
How does glucagon affect adipocytes in a fasting state?
Activates hormone-sensitive lipase
Catheter to get to the uterus starting at the femoral artery - path?
Femoral artery - external iliac - internal iliac - uterine artery
What happens to lower esophageal sphincter tone in CREST?
Decreases because of atrophy of the muscle - this is why CREST patients are at increased risk for GERD and adenocarcinoma
Methanol poisoning - what enzyme do you want to inhibit?
Alcohol dehydrogenase (with fomepizole)
What is the mechanism by which multiple myeloma patients get hypercalcemia?
Local IL-1 and TNF effects - IL-1 is also called osteoclast activating factor
Baby overreacts to stimuli around him and has marked startle response - mother was using what drug?
Heroin
What structure attaches to the cervical region and extends posteriorly and can be incised in female pelvic surgery?
Uterosacral ligament
What function in mRNA synthesis and processing is likely encoded by the 3’ sequence AATAAA?
Cleavage and polyadenylation
How does gemfibrozil affect simvastatin?
Fibrates inhibit cytochrome p450
What diet is recommended for patients with DM2?
Low-calorie
What does a congenital pharyngo-cutaneous fistula (2nd arch) connect?
Fistula between tonsillar area and lateral neck
What binds GpIIbIIIa?
Fibrinogen
Loud, harsh, high pitched holosystolic murmur that radiates over the precordium and a palpable thrill at the left sternal border?
VSD
Atypical cells in EBV infection?
T lymphocytes (Downey cells)
Increased urine concentrations of dermatan sulfate and heparan sulfate, no corneal deposits - what enzyme is deficient?
Iduronate sulfatase
What do protease inhibitors do in HIV treatment?
Prevent maturation of new viruses (prevent HIV1 protease which cleaves the polypeptide products of HIV mRNA into their functional parts)
What neurotransmitter is released in excess following ischemia and can initiate a receptor-mediated Ca2+ influx that leads to neuronal death?
Glutamate
When a movement is planned but not executed, which brain region shows an increase in activity in functional MRI?
Premotor cortex
What kind of vaccine do we have for Hepatitis B?
Recombinant protein
What cytokines do all T cells secrete?
IL-2 and IL-3
Shoulder injury typically leads to damage of which nerve?
Axillary
What is the normal response of the vestibular apparatus when you instill warm water into the ear?
Nystagmus with a quick phase to the ipsilateral side
Numbness over thenar eminence?
Median nerve
Atrophy of the interosseous muscles?
Ulnar nerve
Decreased strength during extension of the thumb?
Radial nerve
Decreased strength of opposition of the thumb?
Medial nerve
Loss of sensation to the skin covering the dorsum of the hand?
Radial or ulnar nerve
Loss of sensation to the skin of the little finger?
Ulnar nerve
Enlarged lateral ventricles - most likely cause?
Cerebral aqueduct stenosis
Where do we find Lewy bodies in Parkinson’s?
Substantia nigra
HIV patient with 1 cm, irregularly shaped, raised, indurated lesion on the forehead - infection?
HHV-8
Increasing sample size does what to the confidence interval?
Decreases (makes it narrower)
Neutrophils stimulated with opsonized bacteria show decreased production of O2, H2O2, HOCl, OH. What’s the enzyme deficiency?
NADPH oxidase
Which molecules must interact to induce immune cell activation by the superantigen toxic shock syndrome toxin-1?
Class II MHC and T cell receptor
How do the steroid hormones signal?
Transmembrane diffusion and binding of signaling molecule to transcription factor
Diarrhea leads to metabolic acidosis or alkalosis?
Acidosis (you lose bicarb in diarrhea)
What vitamins are required from the diet and function to protect tissues from deleterious effects of free radicals?
Vitamins A, C, and E are antioxidants
Gently tapping over the facial nerve in front of the ear results in reflex contraction of the facial muscles - electrolyte abnormality?
HYPOcalcemia (think muscle spasms - Chvostek’s sign, diarrhea, tetany)
What is the mechanism of action of the azoles?
Inhibits synthesis of ergosterol (part of fungal cell membrane) by inhibiting C14 lanosterol demethylase
What agent inhibits both the production of IL-2 in resting T lymphocytes and the production of gamma-interferon in activated T lymphocytes?
Cyclosporine
What is the most appropriate next step in management after identifying a spontaneous pneumothorax?
Needle aspiration
Which aortic arch develops into the common carotid arteries?
3rd
What do you give to reverse the effects of tubocurarine?
Neostigmine (need ACh to overcome the nicotinic blockade)
ACE inhibitors produce systemic vasodilation by what mechanism?
Decreased degradation of bradykinin which is a vasodilator
What triad of signs and symptoms is most often present in a patient shortly after taking an overdose of heroin?
Coma, miosis, cyanosis
Why do symptoms from Meckel’s diverticulum improve with H2 receptor antagonist therapy?
Meckel diverticulum may contain ectopic acid-secreting gastric mucosa
What enzyme is required for acyclovir to work?
Thymidine kinase
Compared with heparin, what is the advantage of enoxaparin?
Less monitoring required
What age-related anatomic changes contribute to well-maintained cardiac output (compensating for lowered HR) in elderly men?
Cardiac hypertrophy
5 day old newborn cyanotic since birth with soft systolic murmur and a decrease in pulmonary blood flow?
Tetralogy of Fallot
An increase in the serum concentration of which hormone is the most conclusive sign that ovulation has occurred?
Progesterone