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Structure and function of blood
What are the major cellular compo...,
How are white blood cells classif...,
Describe the structure and functi...
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Haematology- Red blood cells
Describe the structure of a red b...,
What is the composition of the re...,
Describe the structure of the red...
55
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Haemostasis
1- Describe the haemostatic pathway and explain why cells and their surfaces are crucial to the pathway 2) Explain how clots participate in wound healing 3) Describe a mechanism by which the vascular endothelial cell regulates haemostasis and how It may be altered by physical damage or infection 4) Describe the difference between haemophilia and thrombophilia 5) Describe the role of the clotting system in defence
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White blood cells
What white blood cells are granul...,
What white blood cells are agranu...,
What are myeloid cells
18
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SDL: Development of the skeleton
What is the extracellular matrix,
How is the skeletal system organised,
What is the skeleton divided into
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Musculoskeletal system
Define the msk system,
What does the muscular system con...,
What does the skeletal system con...
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Microstructure and function of human muscle systems
- Outline the difference in function of the three main types of human muscle, and explain how their structural differences are related to these functional differences
- Explain the functions of the specialised subcellular components seen, including the contractile system, the signalling membrane systems of striated and the intercalated discs of cardiac muscle
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Muscle contraction (accidentally made two of the same decks ;(
Define sarcomere,
What is the function of muscle,
What are the 2 types of muscle
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Muscle contractile mechanisms
- Outline anatomical differences between striated and smooth muscle, including organisation of actin, myosin, tropomyosin
- Describe the different phases of the sliding filament hypothesis
- Outline the process of rigor mortis, and how it relates to the sliding filament hypothesis
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Striated muscle contraction
- Describe how rise in intracellular Ca leads to activation of the tropomyosin-troponin system and initiation of striated muscle contraction
- Describe how activation of nicotinic receptors at the neuromuscular junction leads to contraction of skeletal muscle
- Describe how activation of Beta1= adrenorececeptors leads to cardiac muscle contraction
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Smooth muscle contraction
What innervates smooth muscle,
What neurotransmitter can be rele...,
What
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Muscle injury- Principles of tissue healing and repair + management
What are the stages of tissue hea...,
Describe the bleeding phase of ti...,
Describe the inflammation phase o...
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Principles of infection 1
- Define the terms: saprophyte, commensal, opportunistic infection and pathogen
- List the stages of infection and modes of transmission of infections and give examples of each
- Explain the differences between acute, chronic and asymptomatic infection
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Infectious Agents
What are the 4 broad biological g...,
Describe the basic structure of a...,
Describe the basic structure of b...
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Introduction to immune response
- Describe the importance of both innate and adaptive immune systems
- **Describe the differences between innate and adaptive immune systems naming the cells and molecules involved in each**
- **List and describe the role of innate protective factors acting as barriers to infection**
- **Describe the function of T lymphocytes**
- **Describe the function of B lymphocytes**
- **Define phagocytosis and describe the function of phagocytic cells.**
- **Describe the characteristics of the main phagocy
27
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Pharmacology
Define pha,
Define pharmacokinetics,
Describe the term clinical use
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Receptor basics and mechanisms
What is tissue selectivity,
What is chemical sensitivity,
What is amplification
55
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Introduction to neural control systems
What are the main functions of th...,
What are neurones,
What are the structural features ...
28
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Autonomic Nervous System
What is the autonomic nervous system,
What are the 3 divisions of the ans,
What is the autonomic nervous sys...
18
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F cell I- Introduction to the living cell, amino acids and protein
- Recognise the range of cell sizes, from the smallest to the largest known cells
- Define a living cell and describe its key universal features
- Identify the organelles of eukaryotic cells
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F cell II- Gene expression, protein synthesis and antibiotics and fate of newly synthesised proteins
- Outline cellular components required for protein synthesis
- Describe key structural features of DNA and RNA
- Outline the key steps involved in DNA replication
- Outline the basic steps involved in transcription and mRNA processing
- Describe the main types of RNA found in mammalian cells and their functions
- Outline how the genetic code functions to enable protein synthesis, including the concept of reading frames
- List the steps in the biosynthesis of proteins
- Explain how antibiotics
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Physiology + pharmacology Sympathetic
- Outline the effects of the fear-fight-flight response on the body
- Describe the effect of stimulating the sympathetic nervous system and different adrenoceptors involved in the heart, blood vessels, kidney, metabolism, GI tract, eye, lungs, and sweat glands
- Describe adrenergic neurotransmission, and how drugs may alter release and termination of noradrenaline
- Outline different adrenoreceptor subtypes and their associated intracellular pathways, and the effects of adrenoreceptor agonists a
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Physiology + pharmacology Parasympathetic
-Outline the effects of the rest and digest response on the body
-Describe the effects of stimulating the parasympathetic nervous system and different muscarinic receptor subtypes involved in the heart, GI tract, eye, lungs, secretory glands, and male genitalia
-Describe chemical transmission at cholinergic synapses, and how drugs may alter the synthesis, release, and termination of acetylcholine
-Outline different cholinergic receptor subtypes and their associated intracellular pathways, and de
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SDL: Introduction to cells
Describe the cell membrane,
What is the basic str,
What are the 4 types of phospholipid
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