SEMESTER 4 - MBoD

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Decks in this class (28)

L1 - Causes of Disease
What is meant by the term etiology,
What is meant by the term pathology,
What are conditions with no known...
7  cards
L2 - Mechanisms of Disease: Cell growth + differentiation
What is cell growth,
What is cell differentiation,
Describe hypertrophy in terms of ...
27  cards
L3 - Mechanisms of Disease: Cell damage + death
What is the function of necrosis,
What are the causes of necrosis,
Describe the process of necrosis
17  cards
L4 - Mechanisms of Disease during Embryogenesis
What is the embryonic and fetal p...,
What is gastrulation,
What is neuralation
3  cards
L5 - Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine
What are stem cells,
What are stem cell niches,
What do stem cell niches do
4  cards
L6 - Genomic Technologies in Clinical Diagnostics
How does pcr work,
What happens during fragment anal...,
What is sanger sequencing
10  cards
L7 - Cell culture Techniques
0  cards
L8 - Flow Cytometry (Intro and Application)
What is flow cytometry and what d...,
What is flow sorting,
What can a flow cytometer tell us...
17  cards
L9 - Liquid Biopsies
What is a liquid biopsy,
Why can blood be used as a biopsy,
What are circulating tumour cells
8  cards
L10 - Nutritional Anaemias
What is anaemia,
What is required in normal erythr...,
What are 3 mechanisms of action o...
11  cards
L11 - Haemolytic Anaemias
How long do red blood cells circu...,
What is haemolytic anaemia,
What are some clinical findings o...
16  cards
L12 - Full Blood Count and White cell Disorders
What is included in a fbc full bl...,
What does a blood film show,
What does a blood film for red bl...
4  cards
L13 - Disorders of Blood Coagulation
Why do clots form,
How does clotting occur,
What is primary haemostasis
29  cards
L14 - Numerical Chromosomal Abnormalities
What is the difference between mi...,
What are sister chromatids,
What happens in prophase of mitosis
16  cards
L15 - Structural Chromosomal Abnormalities
State 3 types of structural chrom...,
What is a translocation,
How can translocation occur
20  cards
L16 - Inborn Errors of Metabolism
What are inborn errors of metabolism,
What occurs as a result of inborn...,
Describe alkaptonuria as an iem
10  cards
L17 - Congenital Diseases associated with the Central Nervous System
When does neurulation begin to ta...,
Describe the process of neurulati...,
What does the spinal cord become ...
15  cards
L18 - Neurodegenerative Diseases
What is a neurodegenerative disea...,
How are neurodegenerative disease...,
Describe the common pattern which...
24  cards
L19 - Diabetes and Hypoglycaemia
How are blood glucose levels main...,
Describe blood glucose homeostasis,
What is the function of glucagon
40  cards
L20 - Mechanisms of Oncogenesis
What is cancer,
What are carcinomas,
What are sarcomas
32  cards
L21 - Oncogenes and Tumour Supressor Genes
Describe ways in which an oncogen...,
What do proto oncogenes encode for,
What 4 types of proteins are norn...
8  cards
L22 - Tumour Angiogenesis, Invasion & Metastasis
What is tumour angiogenesis,
Decsribe the characteristics of a...,
Describe the 4 key steps in cance...
14  cards
L23 - Clinical Cancer Genetics
What is the difference between co...,
Why identify patients with increa...,
How can patients with increased g...
7  cards
L24 - Introduction to Leukaemia
Define leukaemia,
What are haematopoietic stem cells,
What are undifferentiated progeni...
25  cards
L25 - Introduction to Lymphomas and Myeloma
What is lymphoma,
What are the main functions of th...,
What are lymph nodes and what do ...
25  cards
L26 - Hormone Dependant Cancers: Breast and Prostate Cancer
Describe the receptor cell mechan...,
Describe the key characteristics ...,
Describe the normal morphology of...
33  cards
L27 - Endocrine Disorders
Describe the hypothalamic pituita...,
Where in the adrenal glands is ea...,
What is the condition called wher...
13  cards
L28 - Calcium and Phosphate Metabolism
What are the causes of osteoporosis,
How can osteoporosis be diagnosed,
What are the endocrine disorders ...
7  cards

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