BEHAVIORAL SCIENCEEPIDEMIOLOGY/BIOSTATISTICS (p. 57) T-TESTS VS. ANOVA VS. 2 Chi for Categorical variables. BIOCHEMISTRY (p.

68) OROTIC ACIDURIA Med students are not orotic (erotic) enough for dancers to be on-ya (-onia) = no increase in ammonia in Orotic Aciduria (vs. OTC deficiency) (p. 72) RNA PROCESSING (EUKARYOTES) GPS gets RNA out of the nucleus (order of RNA processing): 1. Guanosine cap added 2. Polyadenylation 3. Splicing of introns (p. 79) COLLAGEN, Type III (Reticulin) Type III: Three-ticulin (Reticulin) (p. 80) EHLERS-DANLOS SYNDROME Three-lers Danlos Syndrome (Type III collagen most frequently affected) (p. 80) ALPORTS SYNDROME Al-four-ts Syndrome (Type IV collagen abnormal) (p. 81) BLOTTING PROCEDURES, Southern blot Ducks fly South for the winter (DNA visualized by Southern blot) (p. 86) AUTOSOMAL-DOMINANT DISEASES, Tuberous sclerosis CRASH-leaf SpotS = Cardiac Rhabdomyomas, Angiomyolipomas, Sebaceous adenoma, Hamartomas in CNS, Subependymal giant cell astrocytoma, Shagreen patches & ash-leaf spots (p. 100) ELECTRON TRANSPORT CHAIN AND OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION, Oxidative phosphorylation poisons Barb wrote 3 Awesome Cards 4 Ollie to Synd (send) Complex 1: Amobarbital, Rotenone Complex 3: Antimycin A Complex 4: CO, CN ATP Synthase: Oligomycin (p. 111) LYSOSOMAL STORAGE DISEASES, Tay-Sachs disease Tay-Sacks lacks hepatosplenomegaly (vs. Niemann-Pick) (p. 111) LYSOSOMAL STORAGE DISEASES, Hunters syndrome Hunters see clearly (no corneal clouding) and aim for the X (X-linked recessive) and they are aggressive. [added and they are aggressive]

EMBRYOLOGY (p. 134) GENITAL EMBRYOLOGY, Mesonephric (wolffian duct) Men are wolves (wolffian duct). MICROBIOLOGY (p. 141) UREASE-POSITIVE BUGS PHUKS = Proteus, H. pylori, Ureaplasma, Klebsiella, S. aureus (p. 151) LACTOSE-FERMENTING ENTERIC BACTERIA Fermenting lactose slowly can be COStly (Citrobacter, Others, Serratia) fast is KEE (Klebsiella, E. coli, Enterobacter). (p. 162) MEDICALLY IMPORTANT PROTOZOASINGLE-CELLED ORGANISMS, Leishmania donovani Macrophage maniac (p. 163) MEDICALLY IMPORTANT HELMINTHS, Loa loa Loa and behold! Worms in my eyes! (p. 163) MEDICALLY IMPORTANT HELMINTHS, Wuchereria bancrofti Watch your area (Wuchereria)! Its getting bigger (elephantiasis)! (p. 164) NEMATODE ROUTES OF INFECTION Hooks can Thread through Schin (skin) = Hookworms (Ancylostoma duodenale, Necator americanus), Threadworms (Strongyloides), & Schistosomes have cutaneous routes of infection. (p. 164) PARASITE HINTS Eosinophilia is caused by FASSTT Parasites: Fascioiasis Ascariasis Schistosomiasis Strongyloides Trichinosis Toxocara canis Paragonimiasis (p. 170) NEGATIVE-STRANDED VIRUSES Change Always Bring Polymerase Or Fail Replication to HE (Helical, Enveloped) Always Brings Polymerase Or Fails Replication (p. 170) PICORNAVIRUS Change PERCH on a peak (pico) to PERCH on a positive peak (positive sense ssRNA, picovirus)

(p. 174) HIV (side) gpForty-one = Fusion protein, blocked by enFuvirtide (p. 174) HIV (bottom) Mutant Homozygotes Cant Contract Retrovirus (CCR5) (p. 175) HIV-ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS AND CD4 COUNT, < 400 No rush to reactivate VZV or TB when < 400 (p. 175) HIV-ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS AND CD4 COUNT, < 100 Toxo and Histo at the Hundo (100) IMMUNOLOGY (p. 200) DIFFERENTIATION OF T CELLS ThI: specific for Intracellular microbes, activated by Il-I2, secretes IFN-gamma to activate more ThI cells, Inhibited by Il-I0 (p. 206) COMPLEMENT C4 is used to blow up bad guys in movie classics (dec. C4 in classical pathway activation). (p. 206) INTERFERON MECHANISM Gamma goads APCS into upregulating MHC. PHARMACOLOGY (p. 236) SYMPATHOMIMETICS, NE Not Everyone can be a Beta too (NE stimulates all adrenergics but 2) CARDIOVASCULAR (p. 265) ARTERIOSCLEROSIS, Mnckeberg Mnckeberg Medial calfication ENDOCRINE (p. 293) HYPOTHYROIDISM, Hashimotos thyroiditis Hrthle cells = Hashimotos (p. 293) THYROID CANCER, Papillary carcinoma Orphan Annie with her Pappy (Papillary carcinoma) & her mama (psammoma bodies) (p. 297) MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA 3 Ps, PAT, and TAG: MEN1 = Pancreas, Pituitary, Parathyroid MEN2A = Parathyroid, Adrenal, Thyroid MEN2B = Thyroid, Adrenal, Ganglioneuromatosis

and Wermer & Sipple were not MEaNt 2B GASTROINTESTINAL (p. 320) INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE (IBD) Where it says For Crohns, think of a, add toward the mural (transmural) to the end. Should read: For Crohns, think of a fat granny and an old crone skipping down a cobblestone road away from the wreck (rectal sparing) and toward the mural (transmural). (p. 324) MOLECULAR PATHOGENESIS OF CRC To progress to retirement, you need your AARP card: APC, Ras, P53 (in order of succession) (p. 325) ALCOHOLIC LIVER DISEASE Getting wASTed with Mallory gives you alcoholic hepatitis (I think wASTed" sounds better than toASTed") (p. 327) HEREDITARY HYPERBILIRUBINEMIAS, Dubin-Johnson syndrome I doubt Johnson and Rotor exported the dark (liver) rubies they conned (conjugated bilirubinemia). HEMATOLOGY AND ONCOLOGY (p. 339) CONVERGENCE OF COAGULATION, COMPLEMENT, AND KININ PATHWAYS Extrinsic pathway is exclusive, involving only one factor (VII). Intrinsic pathway is inclusive, involving multiple factors (XII, XI, IX and VIII). (p. 343) OTHER RBC PATHOLOGIES, Howell-Jolly bodies Howell wasnt jolly when he lost his spleen. (p. 354) LEUKEMIAS, Acute lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma (ALL) Add to Comments: ALL is a TALL order: Tdt positive, T(Twelve; Twenty-one) associated with better prognosis, affects Tiny people, Testicular and Telencephalic (CNS) metastases, Two-Thirds cured with Treatment (p. 357) HEPARIN VS. WARFARIN Add to Monitoring: T is inside (intrinsic to) PTT, whereas it is outside (extrinsic to) PT MUSCULOSKELETAL AND CONNECTIVE TISSUE (p. 366) UNHAPPY TRIAD/KNEE INJURY To see how the ACL and PCL overlap, cross your fingers. R. middle finger should go over R. index finger (R. ACL courses lateral-to-medial anterior to R. PCL) (p. 371) ERB-DUCHENNE PALSY (WAITERS TIP)

Erber (upper) trunk lesion (p. 371) KLUMPKES PALSY AND THORACIC OUTLET SYNDROME KLumpke = Lower trunk (p. 381) SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS Stoned on Lupus: anti-histone antibodies (p. 383) SCLERODERMA (PROGRESSIVE SYSTEMIC SCLEROSISPSS), CREST syndrome Associated with antiCRESTromere. (p. 384) SKIN DISORDERS, Pemphigus vulgaris Mouth ulcers (unlike Bullous pemphigoid) for vulgar mouths. (p. 384) SKIN DISORDERS, Pigmentation disorders You might consider adding this table I made: Melanin Melanocytes Solar Lentigo - Ephelis - Vitiligo - Albinism -NEUROLOGY (p. 399) BRAIN LESIONS, Paramedian pontine reticular formation (PPRF) eyes PPaRt from the PPRF (p. 405) LUMBAR PUNCTURE Slide the LP Into the Epidural space but Dont Stab Against the Softer Pia = 1. Skin/superficial fascia 2. Ligaments 3. Interlaminar space 4. Epidural space 5. Dura mater 6. Subdural space 7. Arachnoid 8. Subarachnoid space 9. Pia mater (p. 415) FACIAL LESIONS, Bells Palsy Bilateral Bells = Borellia Burgdorferi (p. 425) PRIMARY BRAIN TUMORS, Pilocytic (low-grade) astrocytoma hairlike = pilocytic (p. 429) EPILEPSY DRUG TOXICITIES, Stevens-Johnson syndrome

Cause Epidermal Loss = Carbamazepine, Ethosuxamide, Lamotrigine (p. 433) ALZHEIMERS DRUGS, Memantine My man! Time to block NMDAR! PSYCHIATRY (p. 451) ANTIPSYCHOTICS (NEUROLEPTICS) High potency antipsychotics: Its high time Haley tried the flu vaccine. (p. 453) ATYPICAL ANTIDEPRESSANTS, Mirtazapine Mirt2apine = 2-antagonist RENAL (p. 457) FLUID COMPARTMENTS HeINEKIN beer: HIgh Na Extracellular, K INtracellular (p. 466) NEPHRITIC SYNDROME Nephritic syndrome is caused by Really BAD Strep = Rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis, Bergers disease, Alports syndrome, Diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis, Post-Streptococcal glomerulonephritis (p. 466) NEPHRITIC SYNDROME, Diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis wire lupusing (wire looping) of capillaries (p. 467) NEPHROTIC SYNDROME BAD FaRMMs typically FAIL (glomerular diseases that typically lead to renal failure): Bergers disease Alports syndrome Diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis Focal segmental glomerulonephritis Rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis Membranous glomerulonephritis Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (p. 467) NEPHROTIC SYNDROME, Membranous glomerulonephritis Membranous like a DISC: caused by Drugs (captopril, gold), Infections (HBV, malaria, syphilis), SLE, Carcinomas (solid) (p. 467) NEPHROTIC SYNDROME, Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis Membranes proliferate like tram-tracks. (p. 473) FUROSEMIDE Bartering makes me furious! = Barrters syndrome is analogous to furosemide treatment

contrast to: Its a Liddle too much like aldosterone = Liddles syndrome is too much like elevated levels of aldosterone (pseudoaldosteronism) contrast to: Git those thiaz (thighs) out of my eyes! = Gitelmans syndrome is analogous to thiazide treatment REPRODUCTIVE (p. 485) HYDATIDIFORM MOLE (table) Add Complete set of chromosomes (46,XX; 46,XY) to Karyotype row (p. 494) TESTICULAR GERM CELL TUMORS, Teratoma Mature teratomas are only Malignant in Men (p. 497) TAMSULOSIN, add TERAZOSIN [should read, Tamsulosin, Terazosin] Terazosin tears up smooth muscles RESPIRATORY (p. 510) LUNGPHYSICAL FINDINGS (chart) Add to chart: Spontaneous pneumothorax dec. breath sounds hyperresonant absent fremitus ipsilateral tracheal deviation and Spontaneous pneumothorax = Same Side tracheal deviation