Your patient has a respiratory disease that has literally paralyzed the cilia. Explain why this patient would be at an increased risk for a respiratory infection.
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Question 2) At of age of 6 months, Caleb was diagnosed with Tay-Sachs disease. As his primary care physician, what would you tell his parents about this disease?
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Question 3) A patient was admitted to the hospital for severe dehydration. Explain what changes occur in extracellular and intracellular fluid compartments during dehydration.
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Question 4) Compare a gap junction to a channel protein, how are they alike and how are the different?
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Question 5) Describe the events that take place within the Golgi apparatus to a protein that is destined for secretion by the cell into the extracellular fluid.
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Question 6) Follow the pathway that a typical protein, destined for exocytosis will make as it passes from the ribosome, into the rough endoplasmic reticulum.
In your answer be sure to describe role that ribosomes play, and the events that take place in the Rough Endoplasmic reticulum.
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Question 7) What are lipid rafts? What are their functions?
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Question 8) What are cell exons and introns?
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Question 9) Why can we say that cells are protein factories?
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Question 10) What factors contribute to the fragility of the lysosome and subsequent cell autolysis?
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