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Amino acids that are both ketogenic and glucogenic

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Phenylalanine, isoleucine, tyrosine and tryptophan

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Amino acids that are exclusively ketogenic

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Leucine, lysine

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Most common precipitating fx to g6pd def

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Infection

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Causes of hypochromic, microcytic anemia

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CLITS (anemia of Chronic disease, lead poisoning, iron def anemia, thalassemia, sideroblastic anemia)

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Bilirubin bound to albumjn

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Delta bilirubin

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Bilirubin must be below what level to prevent devt of jaundice

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2.5mg/dL

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Conjugated with primary bile acids to form bile salts

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Taurine and glycine

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Precursor for phenylalanine

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Tyrosine

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Precursor for thyroxine and melanin

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Tyrosine

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Precursor for niacin, serotonin and melatonin

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Tryptophan

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Precursor for homocystreine

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Methionine

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Deletion or addition of a base wc results in protein products that are shorter than normal and hence usually non functional

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Frameshift

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Formation of a new stop codon making the protein shorter and non functional

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Non sense

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New codon specifying the same amino acid, no effect on protein function

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Silent mutation

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Most common genetic error of amino acid transport

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Cystinuriq

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Cystinuria presents with defective kidney tubule reabsorption of wc aa?

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COLA cysteine, ornithine, lysine, arginine

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Hexagonal shaped crystals in the urine is present in what disease?

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Cystinuria

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Earliest detectable cardiac element found in plasma during MI

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Myoglobin

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Reservoir of arachidonic acid in cellular membranes

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Phosphatidyl inositol

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Interaction between stacked adjacent based pairs

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Van der waala and hydrophobic

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Connects monomeric units of DNA to become polymeric forms

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3-4 phosphodiester bonds

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Hypoglycib

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Jamaican vomiting sickness

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Lack of mitochondrial medium chain acyl coA dehydrogenase

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Dicarboxylic aciduria

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Accumulation of polyenoic acid in the brain

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Zellwrger

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Absence of peroxisomes

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Zellweiger syndrome

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Exists as a dimer and a monomer(Ig)

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A

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Secretory IgA exists as a

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Dimer

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IgM exists as a

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Monomer,dimer, pentamer

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Exists purely as monomers

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Ig GED