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A few ground rules. Everything you post must be RANDOM and more importantly, only peripherally related to the MCAT. See my example post below. I now await Beary's shirtless pic of Carl Edwards. C'mon Beary, A-man is dying to see it. 😀

This is Ana's example:

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My, factually, better examples 😀 :

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And one final thing. GO GATORS! GO AGGIES! My parents are A&M alum...

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in buffalo right now there is like a huge snow fall mixed with thunder and lightening. There were a few trees that seemed to behit, and an electrical wire down on the next street over (which I just called 911 like twice to report). The wire outside my house is looking a little too low for comfort and is kind of scary.
J.
 
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Hello people!!!

Taking a break from the mad crammingness, I am. I haven't started making animal noises yet, but I think that's the next step in my evolution to complete crazy woman.

Then again, I love med school. Being the crazy person that I currently (always?) am, I made a terribly feeble geek joke at the biochem review session today. One of the second year TA's asked me how I was feeling about the test and I said I was in the T state. (yeah, groan all you want, :laugh:)

The girl next to me laughed and said, yeah, but in this review, you're going to bind the pieces of knowledge you need to cooperatively achieve the R state. :laugh: And then another girl compared the successive study-time suckage from class to class of our successive tests to the catalytic triad of chymotrypsin. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

I am among my fellow kind, what can I say. 😀
 
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MollyMalone said:
Hello people!!!

Taking a break from the mad crammingness, I am. I haven't started making animal noises yet, but I think that's the next step in my evolution to complete crazy woman.

Then again, I love med school. Being the crazy person that I currently (always?) am, I made a terribly feeble geek joke at the biochem review session today. One of the second year TA's asked me how I was feeling about the test and I said I was in the T state. (yeah, groan all you want, :laugh:)

The girl next to me laughed and said, yeah, but in this review, you're going to bind the pieces of knowledge you need to cooperatively achieve the R state. :laugh: And then another girl compared the successive study-time suckage from class to class of our successive tests to the catalytic triad of chymotrypsin. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

I am among my fellow kind, what can I say. 😀
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Molly, you going to be around on Friday night?
 
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MollyMalone said:
Hello people!!!

Taking a break from the mad crammingness, I am. I haven't started making animal noises yet, but I think that's the next step in my evolution to complete crazy woman.

Then again, I love med school. Being the crazy person that I currently (always?) am, I made a terribly feeble geek joke at the biochem review session today. One of the second year TA's asked me how I was feeling about the test and I said I was in the T state. (yeah, groan all you want, :laugh:)

The girl next to me laughed and said, yeah, but in this review, you're going to bind the pieces of knowledge you need to cooperatively achieve the R state. :laugh: And then another girl compared the successive study-time suckage from class to class of our successive tests to the catalytic triad of chymotrypsin. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

I am among my fellow kind, what can I say. 😀
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Now you are making me want to quote the amino acid joke that my friend has posted as his away message on AIM.

Here just for you.......


did i ever tell you my amino acid story?......here goes: 2 young amino acids walk into a bar...you know, they're single, still not yet polypeptides. they hit it off...and the male AA is like, why don't you cross my membrane and we can chill in my cytoplasm. Why couldn't the female AA cross the membrane?.................
..........................
..cuz she needed a Chaperone.
 
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MollyMalone said:
Then again, I love med school. Being the crazy person that I currently (always?) am, I made a terribly feeble geek joke at the biochem review session today. One of the second year TA's asked me how I was feeling about the test and I said I was in the T state. (yeah, groan all you want, :laugh:)

The girl next to me laughed and said, yeah, but in this review, you're going to bind the pieces of knowledge you need to cooperatively achieve the R state. :laugh: And then another girl compared the successive study-time suckage from class to class of our successive tests to the catalytic triad of chymotrypsin. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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Molly! 😍 So glad to hear you are liking med school.

I did not understand any of those jokes. 😳
 
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Noeljan said:
in buffalo right now there is like a huge snow fall mixed with thunder and lightening. There were a few trees that seemed to behit, and an electrical wire down on the next street over (which I just called 911 like twice to report). The wire outside my house is looking a little too low for comfort and is kind of scary.
J.
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Stay safe. 🙂

Snow and lightning is a strange combo!
 
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beary said:
Molly! 😍 So glad to hear you are liking med school.

I did not understand any of those jokes. 😳
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Oh, hurrah! That means I don't actually need to remember any of this stuff long-term. :laugh:

I plan to be around tomorrow night, Tucker, and will pout if I don't get to particpate in chattingness.
 
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beary said:
Molly! 😍 So glad to hear you are liking med school.

I did not understand any of those jokes. 😳
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R state is the relaxed configuration and T state is the tense configuration.

So she's feeling Tense but needs to relax is what the person was saying.
 
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MollyMalone said:
Oh, hurrah! That means I don't actually need to remember any of this stuff long-term. :laugh:

I plan to be around tomorrow night, Tucker, and will pout if I don't get to particpate in chattingness.
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Molly did you see my biochem joke above that I posted just for you well after stealing it from my friends AIM away msg.
 
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MollyMalone said:
Hello people!!!

Taking a break from the mad crammingness, I am. I haven't started making animal noises yet, but I think that's the next step in my evolution to complete crazy woman.

Then again, I love med school. Being the crazy person that I currently (always?) am, I made a terribly feeble geek joke at the biochem review session today. One of the second year TA's asked me how I was feeling about the test and I said I was in the T state. (yeah, groan all you want, :laugh:)

The girl next to me laughed and said, yeah, but in this review, you're going to bind the pieces of knowledge you need to cooperatively achieve the R state. :laugh: And then another girl compared the successive study-time suckage from class to class of our successive tests to the catalytic triad of chymotrypsin. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

I am among my fellow kind, what can I say. 😀
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OMG wow!!!! :laugh: 😛
 
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gujuDoc said:
R state is the relaxed configuration and T state is the tense configuration.

So she's feeling Tense but needs to relax is what the person was saying.
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She also made a reference to allosteric regulation to achieve the R state :laugh:
 
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gujuDoc said:
R state is the relaxed configuration and T state is the tense configuration.

So she's feeling Tense but needs to relax is what the person was saying.
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Ok, I still have no idea. Configurations of what? proteins? 😕

Yeah, hi, I'm the senior Clinical Chemistry resident at U of Mich. Answering all of your chemistry phone calls. That's a comforting thought for ya. 😉
 
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beary said:
Ok, I still have no idea. Configurations of what? proteins? 😕

Yeah, hi, I'm the senior Clinical Chemistry resident at U of Mich. Answering all of your chemistry phone calls. That's a comforting thought for ya. 😉
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We were specifically talking about hemoglobin with the R/T thing.

I love hemoglobin. 😍 It's the one thing I understand backwards, forwards, up, down, and sideways on this exam. The rest of the stuff I thought I knew but apparently don't so much, to judge by the past exams from our prof. 😱
 
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I'm glad at least some fun is coming out of your endocarditis. 🙂

OK, folks, I've got to go make sure I know all my pKa's and such rot. Have a wonderful night!!

And for you guys waiting for scores tomorrow... breathe!!! 😍
 
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beary said:
Ok, I still have no idea. Configurations of what? proteins? 😕

Yeah, hi, I'm the senior Clinical Chemistry resident at U of Mich. Answering all of your chemistry phone calls. That's a comforting thought for ya. 😉
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LOL

Well essentially remember when we were talking about Km a long time back??

There are two types of enzymes: those with single subunits and those with multiple subunits.

A single subunit enzyme possesses what is called michelis menton kinetics in which the graph is the graph of sq rt of x. In other words its a parabola in which y^2 = x rather then x^2 = y. But its only half of that parabola.

I wish I could draw it on here but its hard.

In multisubunit kinetics there are more then one thing involved so when one thing binds it changes the subunit configuration so that all subunits can bind the substrate that is binding to it.

Because the subunits are closely associated, once one unit binds and changes conformation all units will have to change their conformation in an all or none sort of mechanism.

The graph showing this is like an S and called a sigmoidal curve.

At the lower end of the curve when the units are not bound to substrate it is known as the tense state or T state. This state favors inhibitors but not substrates.

In the R state, it is loosened up so that the substrate can fit and not suitable for inhibitors.

The idea that all subunits are having to change conformation is like saying they have to cooperate with each other in a team effort to reach the relaxed R state.

Does this make the joke more clear to you????
 
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beary said:
That's all I could think today when I had the morphine. :laugh:

I was literally laying there giggling.
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man Beary - you and I totally have the same taste in narcotics. 😉 Morphine and percocet are my favorites.

Demerol isn't anything special for me. What are your thoughts on demerol? :meanie:
 
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I wonder if I still would have been admitted if I talked about how much I love percocet and how much I REALLY love morphine in my interview. :meanie: I'm really not a druggie I swear. 😉 I've just had lots of episodes of severe pain so I've sampled lots of them. :laugh:
 
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scores are coming out tonight at midnight... if anyone cares :scared:
 
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