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DrBowtie said:
what are chylomicrons? 😕
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Go eat at McDonald's and you'll make tons of them. Chylomicrons are how triglycerides get into your bloodstream: the triglycerides are disassembled by cells lining the small intestine, reassembled into triglycerides by those same cells, and exported into the lymph as chylomicrons. The chylomicrons in lymph travel up to the thoracic duct in your neck, which is how they get into your blood. They then get converted to VLDLs, IDLs, and LDLs. There, aren't you glad you asked?
 
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QofQuimica said:
Go eat at McDonald's and you'll make tons of them. Chylomicrons are how triglycerides get into your bloodstream: the triglycerides are disassembled by cells lining the small intestine, reassembled into triglycerides by those same cells, and exported into the lymph as chylomicrons. The chylomicrons in lymph travel up to the thoracic duct in your neck, which is how they get into your blood. They then get converted to VLDLs, IDLs, and LDLs. There, aren't you glad you asked?
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Q, you are always handy for those biochemistry questions that we might all have 😛
 
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QofQuimica said:
Go eat at McDonald's and you'll make tons of them. Chylomicrons are how triglycerides get into your bloodstream: the triglycerides are disassembled by cells lining the small intestine, reassembled into triglycerides by those same cells, and exported into the lymph as chylomicrons. The chylomicrons in lymph travel up to the thoracic duct in your neck, which is how they get into your blood. They then get converted to VLDLs, IDLs, and LDLs. There, aren't you glad you asked?
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Guess thats the difference between a 15 and 12 on BS.
 
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QofQuimica said:
Go eat at McDonald's and you'll make tons of them. Chylomicrons are how triglycerides get into your bloodstream: the triglycerides are disassembled by cells lining the small intestine, reassembled into triglycerides by those same cells, and exported into the lymph as chylomicrons. The chylomicrons in lymph travel up to the thoracic duct in your neck, which is how they get into your blood. They then get converted to VLDLs, IDLs, and LDLs. There, aren't you glad you asked?
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you could just have said they were involved in lipid transport. :laugh: 😛
 
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DocFunk said:
You know Q just outnerded you today. 😛
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Was there ever any competition here? Please. I have a PhD in chemistry. That fact ALONE would mean that I outnerd 99.9999999999999% of the human race. :meanie: Now, if any of y'all are physicists or engineers or computer geeks, we can have a REAL competition. 😉
 
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QofQuimica said:
Dude, I didn't suffer through an entire year of medical school just to give a pansy non-answer like that! 😛
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q, honestly. when you get to the 4th year level in order for you to remember all this stuff you have to simplify it. ie, what are chylomicrons? oh, they are in lipid transport. lol or what do you use to treat bacterial vaginosis? metronidazole, 500 mg bid x 7 days. whats the mechanism exactly? long forgotten, at this point im just grasping at facts in hopes that enough of them will make me a semi-competent intern come graduation. :laugh:
 
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QofQuimica said:
Was there ever any competition here? Please. I have a PhD in chemistry. That fact ALONE would mean that I outnerd 99.9999999999999% of the human race. :meanie: Now, if any of y'all are physicists or engineers or computer geeks, we can have a REAL competition. 😉
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An online quiz that I took told me I should have either been an engineer or a computer science major. I went completely against that. 😀
 
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QofQuimica said:
Was there ever any competition here? Please. I have a PhD in chemistry. That fact ALONE would mean that I outnerd 99.9999999999999% of the human race. :meanie: Now, if any of y'all are physicists or engineers or computer geeks, we can have a REAL competition. 😉
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<~Physicist (In training).
 
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Arsenic said:
q, honestly. when you get to the 4th year level in order for you to remember all this stuff you have to simplify it. ie, what are chylomicrons? oh, they are in lipid transport. lol or what do you use to treat bacterial vaginosis? metronidazole, 500 mg bid x 7 days. whats the mechanism exactly? long forgotten, at this point im just grasping at facts in hopes that enough of them will make me a semi-competent intern come graduation. :laugh:
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Hon, when I've passed Step 1, I too will happily forget much of the crap that they make us learn. But until then, sorry, I gotta learn it. You've been here. You know what I'm talking about.
 
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Arsenic said:
q, honestly. when you get to the 4th year level in order for you to remember all this stuff you have to simplify it. ie, what are chylomicrons? oh, they are in lipid transport. lol or what do you use to treat bacterial vaginosis? metronidazole, 500 mg bid x 7 days. whats the mechanism exactly? long forgotten, at this point im just grasping at facts in hopes that enough of them will make me a semi-competent intern come graduation. :laugh:
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what is bacterial vaginosis??








😕🙂
 
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QofQuimica said:
MS2, dammit!!! 😡 😛
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yeah, and when did you learn about chylomicrons? right.

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DocFunk said:
Your memory is pretty good. I vaguely remember chylomicrons from freshman bio.
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i dont remember at all anymore what bio or physiology i knew before med school, its all just a blur. my synapses have been written and rewritten and then reshaped and altered so many times over the past couple of years i think i have some kind of brain damage. 😱:laugh:🙁 (kinda serious)
 
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Arsenic said:
i dont remember at all anymore what bio or physiology i knew before med school, its all just a blur. my synapses have been written and rewritten and then reshaped and altered so many times over the past couple of years i think i have some kind of brain damage. 😱:laugh:🙁 (kinda serious)
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At least you know a lot about medicine.

Just not a lot about much else :meanie:
 
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DocFunk said:
Your memory is pretty good. I vaguely remember chylomicrons from freshman bio.
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That wasn't the only time I learned about them. I taught Kaplan for several years too, so I went over these things again and again. But I FIRST learned about chylomicrons in college, which was, what, when A-man was still wearing diapers??? :meanie:
 
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so today i was at the store and i heard this woman use the phrase "all that and a bag of chips" and i started laughing my ass off...i had to walk away quickly so i wouldn't hurt her feelings
 
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