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USMLE Prep 2

Subjects : health-sciences, usmle
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1. who bleed more DIC or TTP- HUS patients?






2. what chromosome is c - myc found on?






3. Which nerve lies in close proximity to the inferior thyroid artery?






4. What causes alpha helical proteins in alzheimers to become insoluble and prone to aggregating?






5. What does the clinical presentation of restlessness - agitation - dysphagia - and progression to coma 30-50 days after cave exploring? hwo do you prevent?






6. which virus inactivates both Rb and p53?






7. why are pregnant predisposed to cholelithiasis?






8. a patient fearing all white coats is a phenomenon of what?






9. What is the most common location of colonization of all s. aureus types?






10. What is acanthosis nigricans associated with?






11. hypertonicity and hyperreflexity are ________________ of hydrocephalus






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






13. Which is faster purkinje system or atrial muscle?






14. What are the primary determinants of colon cancer risk in UC patients






15. What type of drug is atropine? what else is needed in addition to atropine when treating organophosphate poison?






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






17. What is the key lab finding seen in type III serum sickness? What are some drugs that can induce it?






18. How do you calculate atributable risk percent?






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






20. Where does vit C act in the hydroxylation of lysine residues for collagen? What is the cofactor required?






21. what protein is increased in Crohns disease? What does it do?






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






23. Which is faster atrial muscle or ventricular muscle?






24. What is the sole neurologic manifestation of acute rheumatic fever?






25. What is suggestive of complete central DI?






26. Where is high frequency sound best recepted? low frequency sound? Which is lost more in elderly?






27. What is used to compare means? categorical outcomes?






28. what disease causes a lack of intracellular killing? lack of killing viruses and fungi?






29. How do you calculate excretion rate of a substance? How do you calculate the filtration rate of a substance? clearance of what substance estimates the GFR?






30. What is medullary sponge kidney disease and how does it present? What does it lead to?






31. why is glucagon used in beta blocker toxicitiy?






32. 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?






33. What can inhaled anesthetics (like halothane) cause post operatively? what virus does it immitate? What are the presenting symptoms?






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






35. What causes wrist drop?






36. at three years of age What are social - fine motor - gross motor and language developments?






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






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






39. Which branch of the facial nerve provides taste from ant 2/3 of tongue?






40. which RPGN is also called pauci immune GN? why?






41. What type of mutation does aflatoxin cause? what cancer does this increase for?






42. other than parvo B19 - what else is associated with red cell aplasia?






43. What is the difference between additive and synergistic?






44. What is the mc outcome of a patient acutely infected with Hep C? 2nd mc?






45. what drug causes aggression - nystagmus - ataxia - slurred speech - exaggerated gait and involuntary movements?






46. What is damaged in early syringomelia? later?






47. What type of gene is bcl 2 ? On what chromosome is it? what chromosome is IgG heavy chain on?






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






49. What almost exclusively causes Epliglottitis?What type of capsule does it have? What are the symptoms?

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50. which anti epileptic is preferred in patients with both absence and tonic clonic seizures?