another life blog

BioChem
- Dr. Schreiber
- Exam 02
- Topic: Covering materials ranging from metabolism, lipids, and DNA
Physiology
- Dr. Garcia-Diaz
- Lecture Notes, very pathetic notes – refer to handouts from CourseInfo
- Topic: Small intestine absorptions
Genetics
- Dr. Samuelson
- Notes on CourseInfo, didn’t take any notes
- Topic: Background on human genetics and genome mapping

Anatomy
- Dr. Whitney
- Notes on Forum
- Topic: The insanity that’s cranial nerves and their pathways
Physiology
- Dr. Lehman
- Lecture Notes
- Topic: Pancreatic Secretions (endocrine and exocrine), Integrated Problem Session #7
Intro to Dental Practice
- Dr. Held
- Notes on CourseInfo (hopefully)
- Topic: How dental charting and probing is done

Earlier today, a subset of our dental advisory group went out to 5-WITS for some group fun and adventure. The event was planned weeks ago, and curiously, it rained… HEAVILY! Just like the last event of Body World at the Museum of Science, it rained too. Ah well, at least it’s an [...]

Dental Anatomy
- Dr. Exarchos
- The good doctor had a family emergency – hope it’s nothing serious…
BioChem
- Dr. Kate Crowley
- Lecture Notes
- Topic: Dental Forensic Science
Summary: I have to say Dr. Crowley oozes hardcore badassness. She is like super dental detective ! In a given year, she can solve up [...]

BioChem
- Dr. Park
- Lecture Notes
- Topic: Disease of nucleotide metabolism, catabolic pathways of purines, review
Physiology
- Dr. Lehman
- Lecture Notes
- Topic: Food motility continued, more in-depth look at the stomach, esophagus, and small intestine
Anatomy
- Dr. Whitney
- Notes on Forum
- Topic: Descending motor pathways, which includes corticospinal tract, corticobulbar tract, rubrospinal/retciulospinal/tectospinal/vestibulospinal tract. Cranial nerves
Summary: We [...]

BioChem
- Dr. Park
- Lecture Notes
- Topic: Review of previous material, thymine monophosphate formation/regulation, pyrimidine salvage pathway/catabolism, blocking cell cycle, DNA lesions and diseases
Physiology
- Dr. Lehman
- Lecture Notes
- Topic: Food motility from Oral Cavity to Anus
Summary: Stuff like what happens in oral cavity — we’re chewing. How food goes down esophagus. What happens [...]

BioChem
- Dr. Park
- Lecture Notes
- Topic: DNA Metabolism, DNA Biosynthesis via De Novo Pathway
Physiology
- Dr. Allen; Lord O’Brian
- Lecture Notes
- Topic: Ventilation Quotient, Shunted Blood, Respiratory Regulation
Anatomy
- Dr. Whitney; Dr. Moore
- Notes on Forum
- Topic: More Neural Pathways, Pons Pons Pons, and Neonatal Neural Development

BioChem
- Dr. Park
- Lecture Notes
- Topic: DNA Replication, DNA Elongation, Telomeres, PCR, Restriction Enzymes
Anatomy
- Dr. Whitney
- Notes on forum
- Topic: Medial leminiscus pathway, ALS, other neural pathways and stuff… yeah.
Intro to Dental Practice
- Dr. Leone
- No notes, not even on CourseInfo yet!
- Topic: Dental Caries

A full day of fun filled anatomy!
Dental Anatomy
- Dr. Exarchos
- Lecture Notes
- Topic: Distinguishing features of tooth anatomy, Contact Areas, Development, Mamelon, Cingulum, etc
Summary: Next week, we start to learn about how each tooth is special!
Anatomy
- Dr. Whitney
- Notes on Forum
- Topic: Neural Pathways, Spinal Cord, Brainstem, ANS, Pain and Temperature, Neo/Paleo-spinothalamic, Spinoreticular, Spinomesencephalic

Coach Carter is a high school inner-city sport movie. So, we can expect a few things — 1) all the players have no sense of team work and does not do well in school 2) they have no motivation 3) the school system sucks 4) the coach will turn it all around. That’s [...]

BioChem
- Dr. Park
- Lecture Notes
- Topic: DNA, Histones, Structures, Purines, Pyrimidines, basic stuff
Physiology
- Dr. Head
- Lecture Notes
- Topic: pH and its effect on respiration
Intro to Dental Practice
- Dr. Delima
- CourseInfo Lecture Slides
- Topic: Periodontal Diseases

BioChem
- Dr. Atkinson
- Lecture Notes – I know it looks screwed up, but dunno how to fix it
- Topic: Lipid Transport, Membrane Composition, Indepth look at how Le Big Macs are digested
Physiology
- Dr. Head
- Lecture Notes
- Topic: Respiration Quotient, Henry’s Law, Partial Pressure of O2/CO2 vs uptake, Transport of Gases

BioChem
- Dr. Atkinson
- Lecture Notes
- Topic: Phospholipids, Composition in membranes, Phospholipid motions, Proteins in membranes, Lipid transport, Lipid Metabolism / Transport
Physiology
- Dr. Allen
- Lecture Notes
- Topic: Lung, Flow of Air, Ventilation, Dead Space, Fick’s Law
Anatomy
- Dr. Whitney
- No notes taken… I was slacking off
- Topic: Introduction to Nervous System
APEX Briefing
- Ms. Mann
Summary: What is APEX [...]

Well, not really lecture today, but a test and possible lab for some people.
Physiology
- Dr. Lehman, Dr. Levy
- Exam #2
- Topic: Blood… everything about blood? Yeah, it was all about blood. I think I did poorly again – what can I say, the questions aren’t exactly straightforward and I ended up doing some [...]

For as long as I remember, I thought I had a problem with either my heart, or my lung. It would start whenever I’m sitting down and relaxing and comes as suddenly as it disappears – an incredibly sharp pain on my left chest. The pain would intensify if I move about, if [...]