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Chapter 1: Introduction (Lecture)
What is the definition of the inc...,
What is the definition of the pre...,
What is the definition of the mor...
47  cards
Chapter 1: Introduction (Book)
What is cancer what is it charact...,
Cancer is characterised as a grou...,
Hanahan and weinberg defined six ...
51  cards
Chapter 2: DNA structure and stability: mutations vs. repair (Lecture 1)
What will be discussed in the lec...,
How does a dna molecule look you ...,
Explain the process of genetic st...
64  cards
Chapter 2: Radiation and Chemical Carcinogenesis (Lecture 2)
What is radiation,
During radiation a molecule can b...,
What is the main target of radiation
70  cards
Chapter 2: Gene structure and mutations (Book §2.1-§2.2)
Where is genetic information code...,
Fill in cancer is a disease that ...,
The role of accumulation of mutat...
64  cards
Chapter 2: Carcinogenic agens, DNA repair and predispositions (Book §2.3-§2.6)
What is the common mechanism of a...,
True false chemical carcinogens o...,
A family of enzymes is involved i...
69  cards
Chapter 3: Gene expression (lecture 1)
What will be discussed in the lec...,
What are the three steps as the p...,
For indication how many transcrip...
29  cards
Chapter 3: Gene expression (lecture 2)
Thus far we discussed1 transcript...,
Dna methylation is an epigenetic ...,
There are two types of dna methyl...
55  cards
Chapter 3: Gene expression (book)
What are single nucleotide polymo...,
True false the majority of cancer...,
How can gene expression be modulated
80  cards
Chapter 4: Growth factor signaling and oncogenes (Lecture)
What are two general statements d...,
Why is signal transduction import...,
Name cellular responses for illus...
76  cards
Chapter 4: Growth factor signaling and oncogenes (Book 4.1)
There are four types of proteins ...,
What happens when a phosphate is ...,
There are two or actually three t...
50  cards
Chapter 4: Growth factor signaling and oncogenes (Book 4.2)
There are two major classificatio...,
In the book there s this block of...,
Describe the life cycle of retrov...
39  cards
Chapter 4: Growth factor signaling and oncogenes (Book 4.3)
What member of the egfr family is...,
What kind of inhibitors are used ...,
What are the names of drugs direc...
29  cards
Chapter 5: The cell cycle (Lecture)
What is the cell cycle,
What can dysfunction in cell cycl...,
What is meant by omnis cellula e ...
62  cards
Chapter 5: The cell cycle (Book)
What is the average length of the...,
Are chromosomes visible in interp...,
What cyclin gene is a final targe...
58  cards
Chapter 6: Growth inhibition and tumor suppressor genes (lecture 1)
When looking at this figure pleas...,
Explain how the two hit hypothesi...,
At the moment there are many tumo...
23  cards
Chapter 6: Growth inhibition and tumor suppressor genes (lecture 2)
What three functions does p53 hav...,
What factors determine p53 target...,
P53 is regulated downstream via t...
29  cards
Chapter 6: Growth inhibition and tumor suppressor genes (book)
Are phosphatases often oncogenes ...,
Can you name some examples of tum...,
One gene encoding a phosphatase t...
28  cards

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