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MDSC 2000 UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers The best method to determine maximum placebo effect on a patient is by: Select one: a. telling and giving him/her active treatment b. telling and giving him/her placebo treatment c. telling patient that he/she was given placebo but to give active treatment instead d. telling patient that he/she was given active treatment but to give placebo instead e. none of the above - CORRECT ANSWER- d. telling patient that he/she was given ...

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What makes a good vaccine? - answer-Variolation or Inoculation (Safety) Vaccination (Cost) Effectiveness Type of Immunity Vaccine Production - answer-Dried up small pox scabs, ship live cows to make the vaccine, own farms for vaccine production, infect egg with virus to make the vaccine, DNA vaccines take a gene that codes for one of the proteins to inject with the piece of DNA. Can't control where gene goes. Vaccine Composition (Live Attenuated) - answer-Weakened or less virulent p...

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biomarkers Ans: -objective and quantifiable measurement or characteristic of a biological process -indicator of a biologic process -molecular pathology = gene or gene product associated with a disease process ideal biomarker Ans: -relevant and valid to a specific disease state -provides actionable or prognostic info -quantifiable in easily obtained tissue or fluid -economical to test in a reproducible fashion caveat to biomarkers Ans: -molecular pathology biomarkers can be the prot...

thalidomide Ans: -anti-convulsive drug - made users sleepy and relaxed -impossible to achieve LD50 of the drug (this is when 50% of the test organisms die due to poisoning from it) -animal tests did not determine the effects during pregnancy -it was highly toxic during pregnancy - babies were born without limbs due to it -pregnant women had been taking it as it reduced morning sickness -eventually it was withdrawn as the outcomes were bad theranos Ans: -theranos testing only requi...

What is MHC? - answer-Major histocompatibility complex What was MHC first recognized for? - answer-Self/non-self discrimination in transplant rejection What is MHC absolutely essential for? - answer-Displaying an antigen to T-cells What is the only way T-cells can see antigens? - answer-In the context of self MHC How many classes of MHC are there? Define them and their function. - answer-I - presentations of antigens inside the cell to killer T-cells II - presentation of extracellul...

Types of Antigens - - Infection(bad foreign) - gut flora(good foreign) - cancer(bad self) - autoimmunity(good self) what's recognizes antigens? - - adaptive immune system - innate only can recongize PAMPS what are antigens? - - molecule that can interact(specifically) w immunoglobulin(Ig) receptor of B cells(or T cell receptor complexed w MHC) - cells see it immunogen - - molecule that induces specific immune response - all immunogens are antigens - not all antigens are immun...