Metabolism — Flashcards

In diabetes mellitus, high serum glucose leads to _____ of the GBM in the kidney

What gives elastin its elastic "rubber-like" properties?_____

Biliary tract infections may cause pigment gallstones by _____ bilirubin, which increases risk of precipitation

Dyshormonogenetic goiter (congenital defect in thyroid hormone production) most commonly involves a _____ deficiency

_____ facilitate hydrolysis of GTP, decreasing the rate of G protein activation

Can mineralocorticoids still be produced if the mineralocorticoid pathway is blocked above the level of DOC (i.e. absence of 21-hydroxylase)?_____

Folate deficiency is characterized by _____ serum homocysteine

What is the shared structural feature of amyloid? _____

Serum _____ is a measure of iron in the blood

Factor XI of the coagulation cascade is activated by factor _____