T Flashcards
Weil Felix test is used for
Test for rickettsial infections
Which is not from an insect/flea bite
Q fever Cox burn
Etiology of Q fever
Coxiella burnetii (can be in salivary gland) also CMV can be in salivary gland as well
Patient has swelling of submandibular, tenderness. Patient is alcoholic. Radiographic-mass radiopaque (sialolith) - circumscribed, 1cm x 1cm, what is the reason for swelling
Bacteria infection
Best method for bacteria to replicate and transfer most genetic information
Conjugation
Action of the pili in organisms pathogenicity
Attachment and adherence to host cells
Difference between staph and strep
Staph is catalase +
Strep is catalase -
Lancefield grouping
It’s a serotype classification (that is, describing specific carbohydrates presen on the bacterial cell wall)
Lancefield is determined by C-carb composition of cell wall
Streptomycin inhibits what
Protein production (translation)
What aspect of staph is responsible for food poisoning
Enterotoxin
MOA of staph aureus for drug resistance
Produces enzyme that breaks down penicillin, beta lactamase
What bacteria causes endocarditis in IV drug user
Staph aureus
Most common type of endocarditis
Streptococcus viridian
- alpha hemolytic strep
Acute —> staph
- subacute which is more common is viridans
Which of the following diseases has janeway lesions
Infective endocarditis
Which toxin produces scarlet fever
Erythogenic toxin (erythrogenic exotoxin)
Rash for scarlet fever
Erythrogenic toxin of group A beta hemolytic s.pyogenes
Strep mutans produces
Dextran which is glucose linked in alpha 1,6
What enzyme do oral bacteria use to create dextran and participates in bacterial aggregation on teeth
Glucosyltransferase
What enzyme primarily breaks down sucrose
Glucosyltransferase (dextran sucrase)
Streptococcus breaks down sucrose into what products
Glucose and fructose
Glucans —> dextrans + mutans + levans
Dextrans for polymers of
Glucose
Levans = polymers of fructose
How is glucose and fructose associated with caries
Dextrans and levans
Which of the following is not an oral bacterium and not found in dental plaque
Strep pyrogenes
Which of the following does NOT cause pneumonia
- strep mutans
- H influenza
- S pneumoniae
Strep mutans
Most common bacteria on the dorsum of the tongue
S salivarius
Lipid A with a polysaccharide core is in which organism
Gram negative bacteria
Gram negative bacteria have LPS
What do gram positive bacteria have
Teichoic acids
N-muramic acid is part of
Bacterial cell wall
- it occurs naturally as N-acetylmuramic acid in peptidoglycan
- function is a structural component of bacterial cell walls. Chlamydia has none
Glycan binds what in bacterial cell wall
D-alanine
Rickettsia is a
Gram negative
Non spore forming
Highly pleomorphic bacteria
Responsible for typhus
Rickettsia diseases are destructive for/target?
Endothelial cells of capillaries
- rickettsia are small gram negative, aerobic, coccobacillary bacteria
Which one needs Arthropoda vector (insects) or fleas?
Rickettsia except for cox burn
Weil Felix test is used for
Test for rickettsial infections
Which is not from an insect/flea bite
Q fever cox burn (not bite)
Etiology of Q fever
Coxiella burnetii (can be in salivary gland) also CMV can be in salivary gland as well
The toxin of the gas gangrene organism has what kind of enzymatic activity
(C. Perfringens)
Lipase lecithinase
Clostridium tetani are all the following EXCEPT…
Gram positive
Anaerobic
Spores
Rod-shaped
No exception!!!!!
Mechanism of action of the tetanus toxin
Inhibition of neurotransmitter release (prevent release of GABA and glycine)
Over-treating with antibiotics, C. difficile, would should?
Pseudomembranous colitis
- clostridium difficile causes diarrhea and intestinal colitis
- CLINDAMYCIN
Spore forming bacteria
Clostridium (anaerobic) and bacillus (aerobic)
What ion is related to spores
Calcium dipicolinic (heat resistance of the endoscope)
Mycobacterium tuberculosis has mycolic acid that block antibiotics from penetrating
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Legionnaires pneumophilia is mainly found in air-conditioning systems (prefer Aerosilized water)
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An infection of the epithelial cells of the eye that can sometimes enter back into the nasopharynx
TRACHOMA due to chlamydia trachomatis
Blindness results from
Chlamydia trachomatis (trachoma and adult inclusion conjunctivitis)
Most common cause of non-gonococcal urethritis
Chlamydia
Bacillary dysentery (shigellosis) is caused by
Shigella
Which produces these toxins: protective antigen (PA), edema factor (EF), and lethal factor (LF)
Bacillus anthracis (causes anthrax)
Treponema palladium bacteria
Dark field microscopy
- syphilis causes oral hard chancre, not painful, use wassermann test
Hutchinson’s teeth is a sign of
Congenital syphilis infection
What Protozoa are spread in cat feces
Toxoplasma gondii
How is arbovirus transmitted
Arthropoda
Which virus doesnt have a latent phase
Rhinovirus and poliovirus
These DO establish a latent infection
- EBV, HSV-1 and 2, VZV, CMV (all herpesvirus) HEH, CV
Herpes virus is the only virus that gets it cell wall from
Host nuclear membrane
- herpes virus —> dsDNA, enveloped, nuclear membrane, icosahedral nucleocapsid, establishes latent infection
Cytomegalovirus are associated with
Salivary glands (torches)
EBV and varicella zoster are members of
Herpesviridae
- EBV can cause burkitts lymphoma, nasopharyngeal carcinoma, B-cell lymphoma, hairy leukoplakia, and infectious mononucleosis
What happens with primary exposure to HSV1
Primary hermetic gingivostomatitis
What virus causes chicken pox
Varicella zoster virus
Epstein Barr virus is related to
Burkitts lymphoma
- EBC can cause burkitts lymphoma, nasopharyngeal carcinoma, b-cell lymphoma, hairy leukoplakia, infectious mononucleosis
Left back stab at L1-L2
KIDNEY
What cause influenza to change year to year
Antigenic capsule (gene reassortment)
- influenza virus is an orthomyxovirus with outer envelope has spikes (H and N) for attachment to host cells.
- treatment with amantadine —> inhibits viral attachment and uncoating
- the main mode of prevention is the vaccine, which consists of killed influenza A and B virus
What are the virulence factors of neisseria meningitis
Endotoxin LPS (gram negative)
WATERGHOUSE FRIDERISCHEN SYNDROME
Which is not associated with N.meningitis
Enterovirus (ex. Picornavirus)
What disease causing agents have a polysaccharide capsule
Even Some Super Killers Have Pretty Nice Capsules
- e. Coli
- s. Pneumonia
- salmonella
- k. Pneumonia
- H. Influenza
- p. Aeroginosa
- n. Meningitis
- c. Neoformans
Which virus can be transferred from mother to fetus and is associated with congenital abnormalities
rubella
TORCHES
- toxoplasmosis
- rubella
- CMV
- Herpes simplex
- syphillis
- lieseria through BLOOD not placenta crossing
Measles (rubeola) and mumps belong to which group of virus
Paramyxoviruses
- jump cause parotitis and sometimes in adults orhocitis
Kopliks spots
Measles
- ssRNA
- paramyxovirus
- transmitted by respiratory droplet
Hepatitis B virion
Dane particle
What has the longest incubation period
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis C virus is an RNA virus and is blood-borne (ssRNA, flavirius)
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What version of hepatitis is chronic
Hepatitis C
Penicillin resistance comes from bacteria that contain what enzyme
Beta lactamase
MOA of amoxicillin
Disrupts cell wall and inhibits cross linking between peptidoglycan chains for gram (+)/(-)
Why doesnt amphotericin B work against bacteria
Ergosterol (fungi have in cell wall, bacteria don’t)
Polyene antifungal are specific to fungus because
It attacks the sterol that are present in fungi but not bacteria
Aminoglycosides MOA
binds to 30s ribosome and inhibits mRNA translation (protein synthesis, bactericidal)
Why dont you treat patients with penicillin and erythromycin
Penicillin only works on growing cells
Which one is the mechanism of action of fluorouracil
Suicide inhibitor of thymidylate synthase
- flurorouracil is a pyrimidine analog, anti-neoplastic, interferes with DNA synthesis by blocking thymidylate synthetase conversion of deoxyuridylic acid to thymidylic acid
Naproxen (alive) is a reversible non-selective COX inhibitor that is more potent than aspirin
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What medication blocks prostaglandins
Aspirin
- aspirin irreversibly inhibits cocylooxgenase to decrease formation of precursor for thromboxane A2 (a platelet aggregator that is released by blood platelets) and prostaglandins
Lab test for warfarin
Prothrombin test (increases)
Warfarin = anticoagulant, inhibits vitamin K reductase —> affecting extrinsic pathways and prothrombin conversion so increase prothrombin time (normal ppt and bleeding time) HAEMOPHILA HAS INCREASED PPT
Sulfonamides compete with which molecule in their MOA
PABA to inhibit folic acid synthesis
Therefore cannot makes purines or pyrimidines
Sulfonamides block dihydrofolate and block what
Purine and pyrimidine synthesis
Detergent kills bacteria by interfering with the function of the cell membrane (destroy fat cell parts)
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MOA of digoxin
Inhibition of Na.J ATPase that causes an increase in intracellular Na levels
What medication is a DNA gyrase inhibitor
Ciprofloxacin
-fluoroquinolone, end in -oxacins
MOA of clindamycin
Inhibits 50s
Main side effect of clindamycin
Pseudomembranous colitis (diarrhea)
Rifampin works as a RNA synthesis inbhitor
- treatment of TB
- inhibits RNA dependent RNA polymerase which stops mRNA transcription
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What is the most common bacteria vaccine given in the US
DTP (diptheria, tetanus, and pertussis)
Bordetella pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine is
Killed vaccine
Live attenuated vaccine (ex = polio Sabin vaccine) is an active immunity
Polio vaccines: Sabin (oral/attenuated/alive) versus SalK (injection of killed bacteria)
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Antibiotic used for meningitis caused by haemophilus influenza
Ceftriaxone
MOA of viagra
Inhibits cGMP-specific phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE-5), which regulates blood flow
All will depress respiration, EXCEPT
- general anesthesia
- nitrous oxide
- cocaine
Cocaine
Why is saliva hypotonic
Salivary duct cells reabsorbed Na and Cl- in exchange for K+ and HCO3
- saliva is hyposmolar because reabsorption of water by striated duct cells is less than reabsorption of Na
What nerve innervates the salivary glands of the palate
CN 7
Which salivary glands are only mucous secreting
Palatine salivary gland (in the submucosa)
Only serous glands = von ebner and parotid gland
How would the parotid differ from sublingual (staining/histology) or mucous/serous gland
Parotid
- serous
- more eosinophilia
Sublingual
- pale-stain due to mucous
- bubbly appearance (foamy dark nuclei)
Serous demilunes are in what gland
Sublingual gland
- serous demilunes are the serous cells at the distal end of mucous tubuloalveolar secretory unit of sublingual salivary glands. They secrete the proteins that contain lysozyme, which degrades the bacteria cell wells
What type of cells make up the demilunes of mucous something of sublingual glands
Serous cells
What is not derived from neural crest
Salivary glands and enamel
Epithelium of striated ducts of salivary ducts
Simple columnar epithelium
What parotid salivary glands resemble pancreatic ductal cells
Serous gland and intercalated ducts
Which salivary gland cell is more like proximal convoluted tubule in the kidney
Striated duct cell
What is in the parotid gland
FEAR
- facial nerve
- ECA
- auriculotemporal nerve
- retromandibular vein
Parotid gland duct (stensons duct) pierces the buccinator muscle and is located near maxillary 2nd molar
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All of the primary ions are in saliva except
Calcium
What hormone stores glucose in adipose tissue
Insulin
Decreased insulin will result in
Increased gluconeogeneiss
What is phorphylated in an insulin receptor
Tyrosine
What needs a protein transporter to cross the cell membrane
Glucose through glut 4 FAC bidirectional transportation
Glucagon signals through
CAMP
- glucagon receptor is a 7-transmembrane receptor coupled to a g-protein and cAMP
Glucagon and epinephrine both have in common
Glycogenolysis and GLUCONEOGENESIS
Oxidative phosphorylation occurs in what enzyme
Pyruvate dehydrogenase
What enzyme is used for decarboxylation
Pyruvate decarboxylase
Biotin = coenzyme
Rate limiting enzyme for glycolysis
PFK
Glucose-6-phosphate is not found in the muscles
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Glucose is sequestered by which enzyme
Hexokinase
What is NOT true regarding hexokinase and glucokinase
They have the same KM
- glucokinase is higher, more affinity
- glucokinase is a isoform of hexokinase found only in the liver and only uses substrate glucose
UTP-glucose reacts with which of the following in glycogen synthesis
Glucose-1-phosphate
What steps restores oxaloacetate in TCA
Malate, malate dehydrogenase
What enzymes produce oxaloacetate
Pyruvate carboxylase (pyruvate —> oxaloacetate)
What is the main source of glycerol
Glucose/pyruvate
Where is phosphoenolpyruvate found
Liver
Tidal volume
Normal volume of air disabled between normal inhalation and exhalation when no extra effort is applied (500mg)
Vital capacity =
IRV + ERV + TV
Residual volume
Air remaining after max exhalation
Pressure on a mountain is 250mm Hg, what is the partial pressure of oxygen
50 mmHg
- oxygen = 20%
- nitrogen = 80% so 250 x 0.2 = 50mm Hg
Epithelium of respiratory tract
Pseudostratified ciliated columnar epithleium with goblet cells
Stretch receptors (hering-Breuer reflex) of the lung is carried by vagus nerve (CN 10) to prevent over-inflation
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What produces mucous in lungs
Clara cells
Nonciliated bronchiolar secretory cells that make GAGs to protect the bronchiole lining
Obstructive lunge disease —> compliance goes
UP
- obstructive lung disease is characterized by increased resistance to air flow (lower than normal expiration flow rates) and high lung volumes. Decreased elasticity, increases compliance
Ex: chronic bronchitis, emphysema, asthma - restrictive lung disease is characterized by low lung volumes and slightly higher than normal expiration flow rate (increased lung elasticity). Decreased compliance.
Ex: interstitial fibrosis (lung hardening), asbestosis, and tuberculosis
In which can we see more squamous epithelium metaplasia
Bronchi
Another source said esophagus
Which organ most likely to undergo red infarction
Lung
- white infarct affect solid organs (ex: spleen, heart, kidney) while red infarction (hemorrhagic infarct) affects lungs and other loose organs like testis, ovary, SI due to loose tissues that allow RBC to collect in the infarcted zone
Emphysema can lead to
Respiratory acidosis
Hyperventilation can cause
Alkalosis
Metabolic acidosis —>
Hyperventilation
After metabolic or respiratory acidosis, which abnormality of electrolytes is more likely
Hyperkalemia
When is intrapleural pressure the most negative
End of expiration
When is alveoli pressure the most negative
Beginning of inhalation
What kind of epithelium is found in the nasopharynx region
Ciliated pseudostratified columnar epithelium
Infant has trouble breathing, what cells are causing problems
Type 2 pneumocytes
What describes oxygen transport
Bohr effect
What is true about myoglobin
Graph is hyperbolic (hemoglobin = sigmoidal)
Carotid body measures
Partial pressure of O2
Carbon monoxide decreases O2 content but pO2 is normal
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Patient is on nitrous, best way to measure efficiency
Reserve minute volume
Mineral for coagulation
Zinc and Ca
What carries iron in the plasma
Transferrin
Prothrombin acts with which one to form thrombin
Ca
- prothrombin and calcium/Pl/factor10a —> thrombin (liver)
What is the substrate of thrombin
Fibrinogen
If we put RBC in hypotonic solution
Hemolysis
Blood type: anti-A and anti-B both agglutinate. What blood type is it
AB
Which one of these helps in the retraction of the blood clots
Factor XIII
Boy bleeds during extraction, his maternal uncle and male cousin have same problem. What factor is involved
Factor VIII (hemophilia A and sex-linked)
- characterized by having prolong partial thromboplastin time (PTT) and normal PT/bleeding time
Hemophilia B (Christmas) disease is due to a factor __ deficiency
Factor 9
Hemophilia C is NOT sex linked and is due to a factor __ deficiency
11
Know cytochrome p450. Choose exception
- present in all tissues of the body and help with hormone synthesis/breakdown, cholesterol, synthesis, vitamin D metabolism
- metabolize toxic compounds, mostly in liver
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Enzyme: competitive inhibitor versus non competitive
- increase K and Vmax stays the same
Non competitive inhibitors
- Km stays the same
- vmax decreases
In cells, N-glycosylation occurs in where?
RER (in all cells)
N-glycosylation is the attachment of sugar glycan to nitrogen (ex. Amide of asparagine)
Pyrimidine synthesis begins with what
Ribose 5-phosphate
- R5P = result of pentose phosphate pathway, makes ribose for nucleotide synthesis and NAPD for FA/steroid
What process makes NADPH
Pentose phosphate shunt
Primary molecule for reduction biosynthesis ?
NADPH
Purine metabolism intermediate and precursor of adenosine and guanine??
IMP (inosine monophosphate)
When taking away phosphate group from (named a nucleotide)?
Nucleoside
Whats the difference between thymidine and uracil?
Methyl group on thyme
Phosphodiesterase bonds — connect DNA I bond - connects 2 amino acids
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Whats a small molecule that can’t elicit immune response on its own?
Hapten
- haptens are antigenic determinants, but are too small to elicit the formation of antibodies by themselves. They can elicit immune response when attached to bigger molecules
What elicits an immune response when bound to carrier protein?
Hapten
Alpha helix and beta sheets form (secondary protein structure) through hydrogen bonds
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What is the main AA in the tertiary structure of protein?
Cysteine (disulfide bonds)
What kind of force holds proteins in the lipid bilayer?
Hydrophobic interaction
TRNA wobble is in the 3rd position of the codon
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Which one plays an important role in detecting the starting codon (initation) for RNA transcription?
Sigma part
What determines protein turnover?
H-bonds and peptide bonds: breakdown and synthesis of proteins
Product of enzyme isocitrate dehydrogenase in TCA cycle
Alpha ketoglutarate
In the amino acid metabolism, what are they 2 primary acceptors of amine groups?
OAA and alpha-ketoglutarate
Phenylketonuria is a deficiency of?
Phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH)
- phenylalanine hydroxylase is responsible for the conversion of phenylalanine AA —> tyrosine
What amino acid is associated with taste sensation of umami?
L-glutamate
What is the charge of glutamic acid at pH = 1?
+2
What are the keto genic amino acids?
Leucine and lysine
- ketogenic AA can be degraded directly into acetyl CoA, which is a precursor for ketone bodies
Nissl body is?
Rough ER
What residues are phosphorylated to activate/deactivate an enzyme (like glycogen synthase or glycogen phosphorylase)?
Serine
If patient is on a low carb diet, he/she wants low levels of?
Reduce production of insulin with low level of malonyl CoA
Apoptosis ? Hormone dependent physiologic involuted
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What is the immune reactant in type 1 hypersensitivity? Antigen? Effector mechanism? Example of the hypersensitivity?
- IgE
- soluble antigen
- mast-cell activation
Allergic rhinitis, asthma, systemic anaphylaxis
What is the immune reactant in type 2 hypersensitivity? Antigen(s)? Effector mechanism(s)? Example of the hypersensitivity(s)?
- IgE
- cell or matrix associated antigen
- complement, FcR cells (phagocytes, NK cells)
- example = some drug allergies, penicillin
- IgE
- cell surface receptor
- antibody alters signaling
- example = chronic urticaria
What is the immune reactant in type 3 hypersensitivity? Antigen? Effector mechanism? Example of the hypersensitivity?
- IgG
- soluble antigen
- complement phagocytes
- example = serum sickness, Arthus reaction
What is the immune reactant in type 4 hypersensitivity? Antigen(s)? Effector mechanism(s)? Example of the hypersensitivity(s)?
- TH1 cells
- soluble antigen
- macrophage activation
- example = contact dermatitis, tuberculin reaction
- TH2 cells
- soluble antigen
- eosinophil activation
- example = chronic asthma, chronic allergic rhinitis
- CTL
- cell-associated antigen
- cytotoxicity
- example = contact dermatitis
Alternative complement pathway starts with?
C3a = need this to activation the other ones
C5 (C5a = chemoatrractant) = most potent
- alternative complement pathways starts with C3a. CD59, also known as protectin, which inhibits C9 polymerization during the formation of the membrane attack complex.
The classical pathway is inhibited by C1-inhibitor, which binds to C1 to prevent its activation
- Mannose binding lectin
Interferon gamma (IF-G) receptor complex produces dimerization of chains —> secreted by t-cells, anti-viral/tumor, part of class II neurons
- interferons are a group of signaling proteins made and released by host cells in response to the presence of pathogens, such as viruses, bacteria, parasites, or tumor cells. In a typical scenario, a virus-infected cell will release interferons causing nearby cells to heighten their anti-viral defenses
Cytotoxic T cells recognize?
Cytotoxic T cells (CD8) MHC1
CD4 cells = MH2
T- cell receptors (TCR) are similar to which one?
Fab
- fab (an Fc receptor is a protein found on the surface of certain cells — including, among others, B lymphocytes, follicular dendritic cells, natural killer cells, macrophages, neutrophils, eosinophils, basophils, and mast cells — that contribute to the protective functions of the immune system
Which of the following is for a delayed hypersensitivity/latent infection?
T cells and macrophages, lymphocytes
Type 4
Similarity between Type 1 and type 2 hypersensitivity
Both require previous sensitization
Where does the antigen for MHC I come from?
Virus and infected cells
Which of the following is used to phagocytize bacteria?
Gamma Fc receptor + C3b
Gamma Fc receptor + C3b (all of the Fcgamma receptors) belong to the immunoglobulin superfamily and are the most important Fc receptors for inducing phagocytosis of opsonized microbes
The predominant cell in acute inflammatory response and in abscesses ?
PMN (polymorphonuclearcytes)
What causes pus?
Neutrophils
What secrets TNF-alpha and IL-1
Activated macrophages
Which WBC is the most abundant?
Neutrophils
Which type of WBC shows the lowest in blood?
Basophils
Never Let Monkeys Eat Bananas
- neutrophil
- lymphocyte
- monocyte
- eosinophil
- basophils
CD4 cells recognize:
MH2
Postural reflex —>
Stretch reflex
Spasticity is defined as?
Hyper-responsive stretch reflect
- spasticity is a hypertonus state of the affected muscles due to a release of the tonic inhibition of the brainstem, facilitatory info which leads to gamma motor neuron excitation. Thus, hyperactivity of the gamma fibers
Where does this arise in the spinal cord: sympathetic preganglionic cervical ganglion (SCG)?
T1-T8
Where are the cell bodies of the preganglionic sympathetic nerves that innervate the head?
Interomediolateral horn of spine (T1-L2)
NE is a post-synaptic sympathetic neurotransmitter
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What neurotransmitter is found in nerves that transfer pain?
Substance P
Endomysium versus endoneurium
Endomysium = areolar CT around each muscle FIBER
Endoneurium = CT around myelin sheath/neuron axon
CNS myelin sheath is formed by?
Oligodendrocytes
PNS myelin is formed by?
Schwann cells
An impulse can travel from one nerve to another in one direction because the SYNAPSE limits the direction of travel
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What solute affects membrane resting potential?
K+
Resting potential is -70mV and extracellular K+ increases and comes our of nowhere?
No change
What happens when there is a decrease in extracellular K?
Hyperpolarization
Low extracellular K = hyperpolarization
High extracellular K = depolarization
Vitamin C —>
Hydroxylation of proline and lysine during collagen synthesis
In collagen synthesis, what part happens outside the cell?
Lysyl oxidase (LOX) for cross-linking collagen
Lysyl oxidase - what is the cofactor needed?
Cu - copper
What is the 3rd AA sequence in collagen?
Glycine-proline-lysine
(Glycine-proline-X or glycine-X-hydroxyproline)
Glycine is found at almost every 3rd residue
What AAs other than glycine is found in collagen?
Proline and lysine
Lysine is involved in crosslinking
What is present in collagen, that isnt in elastin?
Hydroxylysine
- tropocollagen is only found in collagen and reticular fibers, also has hydroxyproline and hydroxylysine
- elastin has glycine, alanine, proline, and hydroxproline. It also has tropoelastin
What is NOT needed for synthesis for collagen?
Vitamin K or folic acid
What is responsible for calcium regulation ?
Parathyroid hormone
- increase serum calcium
Main role of calcitonin?
Bone resorption
- its produced primarily by the parafollicular cells (also known as c-cells) of the thyroid.
- it acts to reduce blood calcium, opposing the effects of PTH
Osteoclasts —> monocytes
- mature monocytes and macrophages are capable of differentiation into osteoclasts
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What is not in periosteum?
Osteocytes
What cytokines are found in osteoclastic bone ?
IL-1 IL-6 PGE2 TNF-alpha MMPs