The Missing Viral Algorithm I love the Microbiology section in First Aid for the USMLE Step 1: 2014 Edition. I particularly love the bacterial algorithm for Gram(+) and Gram (-) bacteria. I was wondering why the same did not exist for the Viruses. Instead the Viral section is presented as a system of rules for…
“…under specific conditions such as caspase intervention, necrosis has been proposed to be regulated in a well-orchestrated way as a backup mechanism of apoptosis. The term programmed necrosis has been coined to describe such an alternative cell death.” http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20390367
Here’s an article I haphazardly discovered today on an important sirtuin protein called SIRT4. Harvardianites have discovered that when SIRT4 is absent from mice, the cell cycle doesn’t function to arrest cell division and keep the cell from becoming malignant/cancerous. SIRT4 acts as a physiological weigh-station to prevent the cell from proceeding when there’s a…
I was just playing around with some numbers one day after a lecture for school and came up with some formula for calculating the additive emetic level of more than one antineoplastic drug. I thought I’d share it here in case anyone thought it was interesting (and, well, there’s little else to share). Maybe someone’s…
I was looking around YouTube for a demonstration of muscle contractions for something that we’re studying in school and stumbled upon something interesting that we didn’t cover: The Golgi Tendon. Its job is to protect certain muscle tendons from an overexertion or greater force than can be tolerated by the muscle. If I’m living weights…
