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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 does C1 esterase do other than inhibiting complement pathway?






2. what happens to the cell body of a neuron after the axon has been severed? What is this called? What is it second to?






3. What does protein M do in Group A strep<






4. What are two indicators of chronic alcohol consumption?






5. What is easiest way to treat nephrolithiasis?






6. What are the three dopaminergic systems and What are they responsible for? disease?






7. on which chromosome - and which gene - are people with sporadic and hereditary renal cell carcinomas found to have mutations?






8. What is the cause of rapid plasma decay of thiopental?






9. What are diastolic (lowest) pressures in aorta? LV?






10. What are pancreatic pseudocysts called pseudo rather than true cysts?






11. what commonly happens in GI in response to acute physiologic stress?






12. What are the two coagulase negative staphylococci? How do you distinguish them?






13. What is best to prevent GBS infection in a baby?






14. which staphylococci can do mannitol fermaentation?






15. what indicates the severity of a mitral regurg ? mitral stenosis?






16. in a positively skewed distribution is the mean greater than or equal to the median or the mode?






17. lipid filled plaques in which arteries does thigh claudication suggest? difficulty sustaining an erection?






18. What are two common side effects of both acute and long acting nitrates? What causes them?






19. What is acanthosis nigricans associated with?






20. what bursa is affected when on knees like a maid/gardner?






21. What is Tzanck smear used to detect?






22. What are ulcers arising in the proximal duodenum in association with severe trauma or burns called?






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






24. What is the mcc of extrinsic allergic asthma?






25. other than mycobacterim wha other bacteria is acid fast?






26. What is the neurologic manifestation of ADPKD?






27. What is Bortezomib and What is it used for?






28. what disease causes hypoxia induced hemolysis? oxidant induced hemolysis?






29. where exactly is ACE expressed in the lungs? What type of enzyme is it?






30. When does dysplasia become a carcinoma - in other words When does it nonreversible? What is high grade dysplasia synonymous with?






31. which has better side effect profile - SSRI or TCA?






32. what defines hypoxemia?






33. What antibiotic is best to treat alcoholic pulm infections? why?






34. what would be a sign of absence of cardiogenic pulm edem?






35. what enzymes is lipoic acid a cofactor for? What does a mutation in it result in?






36. up to what level are ciliated cells present in the pulmonary system? mucus producing cells?






37. What is normal fibrinogen levels?






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






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






40. What is achalasia and how would this correlate on the esophageal mannometry?






41. which cells produce surfactant? which ones mediate gas exchange?






42. which nerve in the lower leg is easily injured and causes foot drop ? What are common causes? From what nerve does it branch off or?






43. What can cause aortic regurg? What is the heart sound you hear?






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






45. integrin mediated adhesion of cells to ECM (and BM) involves integrin binding to what?






46. What causes vertical diplopia? horizontal?






47. What does TGF beta do? What produces it?






48. Is the uterus enlarged in endometriosis? does it cause dyspareunia?






49. What three things can reduce the risk of non hereditary ovarian and endometrial cancer?






50. what kind of drug is sertraline? What is a common side effect?







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