Pathophysiology Questions
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Which cellular structure is responsible for processing and packing secretory proteins and receives properly folded proteins from the rough ER and packages them into vesicles for secretion?
Which term refers to injury to cells and to extracellular matrix that ultimately leads to tissue and organ injury, which determines the morphologic and clinical patterns of diseases?
Plasma membrane functions:- _____ and _____ acquisition- Provides a _____ to passive diffusion of large or charged molecules (membrane transport)- _____ mechanisms, scaffolding, and _____
Which term refers to the study of the disordered physiological processes associated with disease or injury?
Which term refers to the causes of disease?
Alcoholic steatohepatitis pathophysiology:- _____ cells secrete cytokines- _____ cells get activated
TIA or Ischemic stroke?- Infarction of brain, spinal cord, or retinal cell death due to ischemia, based on neuropathologic, neuroimaging, and/or clinical evidence of permanent injury
Which term refers to a heterogeneous group of disorders caused by mechanisms other than metastases, metabolic and nutritional deficits, infections, coagulopathy, or side effects of cancer treatment?
PD clinical features:- _____: “rest tremor” and intermittent- _____: generalized slowness of movement- _____: increased resistance to passive movement about a joint- _____ _____: an impairment of postural reflexes that cause a feeling of imbalance and a tendency to fall
Which type of liquid biopsy?- General term that applied to both tumor and normal DNA fragments not associated with cells
Grading or Staging?- Based on degree of differentiation
Alcoholic steatosis pathophysiology:- Accelerated hepatic _____- Defective hepatic _____ export- Impaired _____ liver secretion
HH is caused by a mutation in which gene that causes decreased activity of which molecule?
IDH-mutant glioma pathophysiology:- Elevated _____ levels- Cause _____ cell suppression by: _____ “_____” effect, _____ ”_____ _____ effect”
Which term refers to a tumor's tendency to metastasize to specific organs that indicates the cancer cells' ability to adopt to and colonize secondary tissues?
Which type of liquid biopsy?- Extracellular DNA from cancer cells that have undergone cell death
True/False: There are only tumor-promoting microbiomes involving particular bacterial species that can affect the incidence and pathogenesis of colon tumors.
TIA or Ischemic stroke?- Episode of neurologic abnormalities caused by focal brain, spinal cord, or retinal ischemia, without acute infarction
Hepatic encephalopathy in ALF pathophysiology:- Increase in _____ concentrations passing the _____ results in increase in _____ in the brain- _____ swelling --> Cerebral _____ --> Intracranial _____ --> Neuronal dysfunction
Which jaundice classification?- Type: unconjugated and conjugated- Cause: defective conjugation; abnormal excretion of bilirubin