Everyone - Erythrocytes (5,000,000/mm3)
Please - Platelets (250,000/mm3)
Never - Neutrophils (50-70% leukocytes)
Let - Lymphocytes (20-40% leukocytes)
Monkeys - Monocytes (2-8% leukocytes)
Eat - Eosinophils (1-4% leukocytes)
Bananas - Basophils (0.1% leukocytes)
It's a good way to remember the order of proportions in the blood.
EXAM 1 PATHOPHYSIOLOGY LIST
This is an alphabetized list of the important medical conditions to understand for the first exam. You might find
it helpful to print this page and see if you know each disease.
Acquired Hemolytic Anemia
Anaphylactic shock
Beriberi (wet vs. dry)
Cancer (in terms of integrins / cell cycle proteins)
Chemotherapy drug resistance
Collagen disease (diagnostic test?)
Congestive Heart Failure
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)
Cystic Fibrosis
Edema
Ehlers-Danlos, Type IV
Ehlers-Danlos, Type VII
Elephantitis
Emphysema
Glanzmann’s disease
Heriditary spherocytosis
HIV infection
Hypercellular obesity
Hypertrophic obesity
Hurler’s disease
I-Cell Disease
Leukocyte adhesion deficiency
Marfan’s syndrome
MDR
Mitochondrial cytopathy
Vulgaris
Primary ciliary dyskinesia (immotile cilia syndrome, or Kartagener’s Syndrome)
Proinsulin diabetes
Retinoblastoma
Scurvy
Tay-Sachs disease
Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome
EXAM 1 PHARMACOLOGY LIST
This is an alphabetized list of the chemical compounds that have important effects in the areas covered by the
first exam. You might find it helpful to print this page and see if you know what these chemicals work on, and
what the effect is.
Agrin
Atractyloside
Antimycin A
β-mercaptoethanol
Cardiotonic steriods
Colchicine (Colcemid)
Cyanide
Cyclohexamide
Cytochalasin
Epinephrine/norepinephrine (effect on adipocytes)
Insulin (effect on adipocytes)
Leptin
2,4 Dinitrophenol
Oligomycin
Phalloidin
Rotenone
Taxol (Paclitaxel)
Thermogenin
Urea
Vinblastine (Vincristine)
Abbreviations and symbols for the commonly
occurring amino acids (Biochemistry 3rd Edition,
Lippincott’s Illustrated Reviews).
Unique first letter
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Cysteine Cys C
Histidine His H
Isoleucine Ile I
Methionine Met M
Serine Ser S
Valine Val V
Most commonly occurring amino acids have priority
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Alanine Ala A
Glycine Gly G
Leucine Leu L
Proline Pro P
Threonine Thr T
Similar sounding names (and helpful memorizing
aids)
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Arginine Arg R (aRginine)
Asparagine Asn N (contains N)
Aspartate Asp D (asparDic)
Glutamate Glu E (glutEmate)
Glutamine Gln Q (Q-tamine)
Phenylalanine Phe F (Fenylalanine)
Tyrosine Tyr Y (tYrosine)
Tryptophan Trp W (tWyptophan – as Elmer Fudd would say)
Letter close to initial letter
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Lysine Lys K
Aspartate or asparagine Asx B (near A)
Glutamate or glutamine Glx Z