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USMLE Prep 2

Subjects : health-sciences, usmle
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What causes alpha helical proteins in alzheimers to become insoluble and prone to aggregating?






2. what dictates the resting membrane potential of most cells?






3. what should you think of with coarctation of aorta - bicuspid valves and horseshoe kidney?






4. What is the best indicator for the severity of mitral stenosis?






5. what Cardiac condition does the valsalva maneuver abolish? how? what muscle is most important?






6. What agonists reduce the gradient across the LV outflow tract?






7. what induces bronchial squamous metaplasia?






8. what enzyme converts procarcinogens into carcinogens?






9. what clinical findings help distinguish small cell carcinoma?






10. What is the mc location for avascular necrosis? What is it associated with?






11. What does p53 do? what chrom is it on?






12. What three factors effect total oxygen content of blood?






13. how does eos release MBP to kill protozoa etc?






14. What is the presentation of angioedema? Where is most commonly affected?






15. What does L/S stand for in fetal lung maturity? When does maturity occur?






16. What are the long term consequences of hydrocephalus?






17. What are the skin presentation in sarcoid?






18. What does VIP do to gastric acid secretion?






19. what happens to capacitance with age?






20. What does NF- KB do?






21. What is the mainstay treatment for acute mania?






22. What is the most common initital symptom of ADPKD? what else?






23. What can nitrates lead to that is bad for angina therapy? How do you counter this?






24. What are some of the permissive effects of cortisol?






25. Increase in lung cancer incidence and mortality has been observed in _____ over last four decades






26. at four years of age - What are the social - fine motor - gross motor - and language developments?






27. Axillary lymph node dissection is a risk factor for the development of chronic lymphedema of the ipsilateral arm. What does chronic lymphedema predispose to?






28. what organ would an activating mutation in PRPP synthetase effect?






29. where are Beta 1 receptors found?






30. What does nitroprusside do to afterload? preload?






31. What are three symptoms in s.typhi?






32. What triggers the neoplastic changes that are associated with HBV infecton?






33. In what form are mitochondrial DNA? What do they transcribe?






34. What are the three predominant symptoms of VHL? What is its mode of inheritance?






35. What is normal fibrinogen levels?






36. how can HAV be inactivated?






37. how does neisseria cause a petechial rash?






38. what drugs causes the red man syndrome? how does it occur?






39. non ceruloplasmin deposition - ceruloplasmin is...






40. the rate of blood flow of which two circulations must equal each other at all times?






41. What is diphenoxylate and What is it used for? what drug is it structurally similar to? What allows for potent anti diarrheal effect without signigicant opiate effects?






42. What type of endocarditis is cytoscopy induced?






43. which type of glands produce an initially odorless secretion but can become malodorous secondary to bacterial decompisition on the skin surface? which glands are present throughout the skin except on lips and glans penis?






44. What is the mc manifestation of CMV in HIV patient? immunocompetent?






45. How is dobutamine better than dopamine?






46. Where does complement bind on the Fc region of Ig chains?






47. what defines hypoxemia?






48. Would alpha 1 agonists cause flushing? muscarinic antagonist?






49. what drug is useful for secretory diarrhea?






50. in overweight individuals What is thought to contribute to insulin resistance?