A 60-year-old man has major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety, and chronic diabetic peripheral neuropathy. His blood pressure is controlled on lisinopril. Which antidepressant choice and monitoring plan is most appropriate?

A 17-year-old male was diagnosed with acne and prescribed benzoyl peroxide lotion and clindamycin 1% gel.  At his 4-week follow-up visit, he reports no improvement in his skin.  What is the most appropriate next step in management?

Your next patient is a 56-year-old woman. She is experiencing heart palpitations but denies chest pain, shortness of breath, insomnia, and waking up with racing thoughts.  This is fairly new to her, she has been very healthy and has regular health maintenance exams.  Her last annual exam was one year ago.  She is up-to-date with all immunizations.   She does not take any medications. She had somewhat similar symptoms about 8 months ago; she went to the ED and the cardiac evaluation ruled out a possible MI or arrhythmia.  She did not follow up with her PCP after that, she has been too busy with work.  Which of the following would be least appropriate to support your thoughts regarding her mental health status?

Proteinuria is a useful biomarker for identifying people at increased risk of developing hypertension. Which of the following is considered an uncommon risk factor for developing proteinuria?

If you want to separate a mixture of proteins for later analysis, you should use ______________.

Word bank (1 pt each):  For the following phrases and sentences, put the proper term in the blank.  Feel free to copy and paste so that the spelling is correct.  Terms may be used more than once or not at all.  (7 pts) Terms:  aglyphous, alarm pheromones, bats, birds, fangs, forcipules, genomics, inducers, inhibitors, linear, lipidomics, mast cell degranulating peptides, nematocysts, opisthoglyphous, piperidine alkaloids, presynaptic, proteomics, postsynaptic, proteroglyphous, reticulated, solenoglyphous, stingers   [term1] is the term for fangs that are hollow and rotate outward from the roof of the mouth.   Platelet [term2] would increase the chances of blood clotting.   [term3] are part of the venom delivery system of centipedes.   [term4] are produced only by bees and cause histamine release.   Scorpion or spider toxins that contain disulfide bonds would be categorized as [term5].   The general term for toxins that affect the muscle side of the neuromuscular junction is [term6].   The Illumina platform would be most useful for conducting studies within the field of [term7].

What is the phone number for Poison Control in the United States (2 pts)?

Indicate which toxin or product on the left is found in which general or specific type of organism on the right by writing the corresponding letter in the blank.  Answers may be used once, more than once, or not at all (13 pts total).

Which of the following statements about biogeography is TRUE?

The molecule pictured here is a(n) _________________.