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Glucogenic amino acids "HAVe Money" His Arg Val Met Glucogenic/ketogenic amino acids "TTIP" Thr Trp Phe Ile Ketogenic amino acids "LL" Lys Leu Amino acids w/ 3 titratable protons "Acidic, Basic, Cys, Tyr" Acidic = Asp, Glu Basic = Arg, Lys, His Dibasic amino acids "COAL" Cys Orn Arg Lys Urea cycle "Ordinarily, Careless Crappers Are Also Frivolous About Urination" Ornithine + Carbamoyl Phosphate → Citrulline...+Aspartate → Arginosuccinate → Fumarate + Arginine → Urea NADH production in TCA "KIM likes goNADs" After... α-ketoglutarate Isocitrate Malate TCA cycles "Can I Keep Selling Sex For Money, Officer?" Citrate Isocitrate α-KG Succinate Succinyl-CoA Fumarate

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Glucogenic amino acids

"HAVe Money" His

Arg Val Met

Glucogenic/ketogenic amino acids "TTIP"

Thr Trp

Phe Ile

Ketogenic amino acids

"LL" Lys

Leu

Amino acids w/ 3 titratable protons

"Acidic, Basic, Cys, Tyr" Acidic = Asp, Glu

Basic = Arg, Lys, His

Dibasic amino acids

"COAL" Cys Orn

Arg Lys

Urea cycle "Ordinarily, Careless Crappers Are Also Frivolous About Urination"

Ornithine + Carbamoyl Phosphate → Citrulline...+Aspartate → Arginosuccinate → Fumarate + Arginine → Urea

NADH production in TCA

"KIM likes goNADs" After...

α-ketoglutarate Isocitrate

Malate

TCA cycles

"Can I Keep Selling Sex For Money, Officer?" Citrate Isocitrate

α-KG Succinate

Succinyl-CoA Fumarate

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Malate Oxaloacetate

Blotting procedures "SNoW DRoP"

Southern = DNA Northern = RNA

Western = Protein SouthWestern= DNA-binding Proteins

X-linked Recessive Disorders

"Be Wise, Fool's GOLD Heeds Silly Hope, Alport"

Bruton's agammaglobulinemia Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome

Fabry's Disease G6PD deficiency Ocular albinism/Ornithine transcaramylase deficiency

Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome Duchenne's and Becker's muscular dystrophy

Hunter's Syndrome Hemophilia A and B Alport syndrome

Trinucleotide repeat expansion diseases "X-Girlfirend's First Aid Helped Ace My Test"

Fragile X = CGG (chrX) Freidrich's ataxia = GAA (chr9)

Huntington's = CAG (chr4) Myotonic dystrophy = CTG (chr 19)

22q11 deletion syndromes

"CATCH 22" Cleft palate

Abnormal facies Thymic aplasia

Cardiac defects Hypocalemia (2° to PTH aplasia) 22q11

*CAC = velocardialfacial syndrome

*TCH = DiGeorge syndrome

Reactions requiring VitB1

"Vitamin B1 helps make ATP" Branched-chain AA dehydrogenase α-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase (TCA)

Transketolase (HMP shunt) Pyruvate dehydrogenase (glycolysis)

Reactions requiring biotin

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"PAP carboxylation" Pyruvate carboxylase (gluconeogenesis via oxaloacetate)

Acetyl-CoA carboxylase (FA synthesis via malonyl-CoA) Propionyl-CoA carboxylase (odd-chain FA & branched AA to TCA via methylmalonyl-CoA)

Metabolic processes occurring in both cytosol & mitochondria "HUGs take 2"

Heme synthesis Urea cycle Gluconeogenesis

Infant deprivation effects 4 W's: "Weak, Wordless, Wanting, Wary"

Weak: weight loss, ↓muscle tone, physical illness Wordless: poor language skills

Wanting: anaclitic depression, poor socialization Wary: no basic trust

Manic episode "DIGFAST" (≥3)

Distractibility Irresponsible behavior

Grandiosity Flight of ideas Agitation/↑Activity

↓Sleep Talkativeness/pressured speech

Major depressive disorder "DSIGECAPS" (≥5, one of which must be anhedonia or depressed mood)

Depressed mood Sleep disturbances ↓Interest (anhedonia)

Guilt/feelings or worthlessness ↓Energy

↓Concentration ↓Appetite/weight changes Psychomotor retardation or agitation

Suicidal ideations

Risk factors for suicide completion

"SAD PERSONS" Sex (male)

Age (teenager, elderly) Depression Previous attempts

EtOH iRRational thinking

Sickness

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Organized plan No spouse

(lack of) Social support

Panic disorder

"PPANIICS" Palpitations, Paresthesias

Abdominal distress Nausea Intense fear of dying/losing control, lIight headeedness

Chills, choking, disConnectedness Sweating, Shaking, SOB

Personality disorders "Weird, Wild, Worried"

Cluster A = paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal Cluster B = antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissitic Cluster C = avoidant, obsessive-compulsive, dependent

Cluster A personality disorders "Weird: Accusatory, Aloof, Awkward"

Paranoid = accusatory Schizoid = alood

Schizotypal = awkward

Cluster C personality disorders

"Worried: Cowardly, Compulsive, Clingy" Avoidant = cowardly Compulsive = obsessive-compulsive

Dependent = clingy

X-linked recessive disorders

"Be Wise, Fool's GOLD Heeds Silly Hope" Bruton's agammaglobulinemia

Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome Fabry's disase G6PD deficiency

OTC deficiency/Ocular albinism Lesch-Nyhan syndrome

Duchenne's & Becker's muscular dystrophy Hunter's Syndrome Hemophilia A & B

WBC prevalence "Neutrophils like making everything better"

Neutrophils = 40-60% Lymphocytes = 20-40%

Monocytes = 2-8% Eosinophils = 1-4% Basophils 0.5-1%