Biomedical Science Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

A concise in-depth summary of the mechanics of breathing (inspiration & expiration) Covers: - Partial pressure laws - Ventilation & the 3 factors affecting it (pressures, compliance, resistance) - Pressure definitions (intrapulmonary, transpulmonary etc.) - Muscles involved in inspiration, expiration & active expiration - Lung volume definitions - Pulmonary function studies & calculations - Efficacy & work of breathing - calculations & examples in disease

A comprehensive summary of the 5 steps of Haemostasis 1. Vessel spasm 2. Platelet plug formation 3. Coagulation 4. Clot retraction 5. Fibrinolysis Detail on all 5 steps, but particularly in depth for steps 2,3 and 5

A flowchart summarising the breakdown of macronutrients to produce ATP (proteins, carbohydrates & fatty acids)

Summary of: Bacterial morphology and arrangement Gram and acid-fast staining - with examples Peptidoglycan wall structure - how it grows through with binary fission Antibiotics - action on the peptidoglycan

Intro to microorganisms Summary of different microscopes & calculations

Summary notes of all key concepts regarding enzymes in metabolic biochemistry. Includes: Enzyme structure - active sites, substrate specificity, coenzymes & isoenzymes Enzyme assays (spectrophotometer) Thermodynamics - activation energy, Gibbs free energy Enzyme kinetics - velocity (and the effect of [S] and [E] on V0), temperature, pH, Michaelis-Menten model & lineweaver-burk plots Enzyme inhibition - irreversible & reversible (competitive & non-competitive) and their effects on enzyme kinetics...