Saturday, April 07, 2007

Acronyms Acrobat

1 Lecture in Cell Biology (LSM2103) on Apoptosis:
Apaf1, AIF, Bcl2, BH3, Bcl-XL, Bax, Bak, Bad, Bid, tBid, CAD, Casp3, Casp8, Ced3, Ced4, Casp9, CARD, cIAP, Cyto C, DED, DD, DISC, Diablo, FLIP, FAS, FADD, IKK, Noxa, puma, P10, P20, P53, Smac, TAK1, TNF, TRADD, RIP, TRAF2, TNFR1, NFkB
Acronym Count: 40

22 Lectures in one Semester.
22 x 40 = 880 Acronyms

6 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey, I wanted to do a calculation of the total number of acronyms in LSM too..
Thanks for helping me with the count!
-_- Sian.

10:43 pm  
Blogger chiew said...

omg haha i think everyone has the same idea in their heads. i was just complaining that my brain is full of little alphabets floating about randomly piecing together to give some funny acronym! =p

12:06 am  
Blogger Guang~ said...

omg~ 880! hahaha.. i'm going to have to upgrade my internal hard drive..

12:18 am  
Blogger Kelvin Lim said...

Sigh... And that number excludes ridiculous acronyms of acronyms
EG. SCF = Skp1 - Cdc53 - F-box protein
*vomit*

Heh. But it's comforting to know that I'm not the only one with a dysfunctional hard drive.

2:44 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ha. You had to mention CyclinG.

8:38 am  
Blogger Kelvin Lim said...

Blame it on MPSH... Put up this kind of misleading signs...

4:59 pm  

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