Possible Test II Bonus Questions

Question 1

Nobel Prize winner who discovered dopamine is a neurotransmitter. Also found lack of dopamine in the brain of Parkinson patients

Answer 1

Arvid Carlsson

Question 2

Nobel Prize winner who studied in detail how neurotransmitters carry out their work in the neurons. Dopamine activated a certain portein (DARPP-32), which could change the function of many other proteins.

Answer 2

Pail Greengard

Question 3

Nobel Prize winner who proved that learning and memory processes involve a change of form and function of the synapse, increasing its efficiency. This research was on a certain kind of snail, the Sea Slug (Apylasia)

Answer 3

Eric Kandel

Question 4

How many people in the US has Alzheimer’s disease

Answer 4

4-5 million, predicted to be 16 million by 2050

Question 5

LVAD Design Principles

Answer 5

• Avoid mechanical shearing of the blood
• 6 Liters/min and 100 mmHg
• High reliability and efficiency
–… hence magnetic bearings
• low power
• ~10 g loading

Question 6

The AbioCor® Heart

Answer 6

Implanted into 59 year old Robert Tools on July 2, 2001 at Jewish Hospital in Louisville KY (151 days)
• Patient is able to walk around, organs are functioning normally, undergoing daily rehabilitation for eventual release

Question 7

Who wrote the first textbook on bone anatomy?

Answer 7

Bernard Albinus (Tabulae Sceletie Musculorum Corporis Humani)