Although liver glycogen stores are depleted during the second phase of fasting, hormonal signals function to maintain blood glucose content near 4.5 mM (~100 mg/100 mL). At this time, during the second of the three phases of fasting, the primary precursor for glucose is which of the following?

A client says to the nurse, “When I have a stressful day at work and the boss in on my case all day I go home and yell at my kids.”  This is an example of what?

Insulin is released in response to elevated blood glucose and acts on multiple tissues to lower circulating glucose by increasing glucose oxidation and storage. One mechanism that contributes to these processes is insulin-stimulated glucose transport in which of the following two tissues?

A 35-year-old woman with centripetal obesity, hypertension and infertility reports acute severe pain in her right great toe. There is no history of trauma. Which one of the following lab findings is most likely to explain her pain?  

Which of the following statements best explains why a high protein diet increases the concentration of urea cycle enzymes?

Which of the following is the closest precursor to GMP in a rapidly dividing cancer cell?

Toby takes his teddy bear with him to his first year at college and puts it on his bed stand at night.  What is this an example of?

Which of the following is NOT a factor that influences the impact of stress on illness?

Nursing process is best defined as what?

Oxaloacetate concentration is the most important regulator of the citric acid cycle. Acetyl CoA allosterically induces the activity of a key enzyme to promote an anapleurotic reaction and thus, maintain the balance between oxaloacetate and acetyl CoA concentrations. In the overall process of losing fat, fat cannot be oxidized in the absence of the substrate for this enzyme. Which of the following is the substrate for this key enzyme?