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The A&P Professor: Rhinovirus Replicates Best in the Nasal Cavity
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Tips, content updates, teaching tools, resource links, and conversations related to teaching and learning human anatomy and physiology. Structure and Function of the Body. Lion Den Study Tips. Tuesday, January 6, 2015. Rhinovirus Replicates Best in the Nasal Cavity. It's that time of year, eh? Cold and flu season. And this week we have news from researchers giving us a bit more insight into the rhinoviruses. That cause the common cold. What can we use from this in teaching undergraduate A&P? Has practica...
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The A&P Professor: A Brain-Lymphatic Connection
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Tips, content updates, teaching tools, resource links, and conversations related to teaching and learning human anatomy and physiology. Structure and Function of the Body. Lion Den Study Tips. Wednesday, June 3, 2015. Existing dogma in neuroscience states that the brain does not possess the classical lymphatic drainage system found in other parts of body. However, a recent letter in the journal Nature. Reports the discovery of lymphatic vessels lining the dural sinuses. If you discuss the dogma of the "i...
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The A&P Professor: Your Textbook is a Mitten, Not a Glove
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Tips, content updates, teaching tools, resource links, and conversations related to teaching and learning human anatomy and physiology. Structure and Function of the Body. Lion Den Study Tips. Monday, November 17, 2014. Your Textbook is a Mitten, Not a Glove. How well does the textbook you use in your course fit? What I mean by that is:. Have you looked at whether the reading style. Is geared toward the students you typically. Is the text written for beginners or experts? By both reading and raiding?
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The A&P Professor: Mechanism of Cracking Knuckles
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Tips, content updates, teaching tools, resource links, and conversations related to teaching and learning human anatomy and physiology. Structure and Function of the Body. Lion Den Study Tips. Wednesday, April 15, 2015. Mechanism of Cracking Knuckles. It never fails—somebody always. Asks about what's going on when knuckles crack. When we get to the topic of articulations. Recently, researchers used modern MRI techniques to demonstrate exactly what is happening. Hint: think "fracture" as cavitation would ...
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The A&P Professor: Cytotoxic T Cell Horror Flick
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Tips, content updates, teaching tools, resource links, and conversations related to teaching and learning human anatomy and physiology. Structure and Function of the Body. Lion Den Study Tips. Monday, February 9, 2015. Cytotoxic T Cell Horror Flick. Liven up your A&P class with a great video. Showing a gruesome attack by a killer T cell. On a cancer cell. It's a fantastic bit of video microscopy produced by Cambridge University. Just the thing to liven up a discussion of adaptive immunity. Recent researc...
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The A&P Professor: There May Not Be a Single Language Comprehension Center in the Brain
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Tips, content updates, teaching tools, resource links, and conversations related to teaching and learning human anatomy and physiology. Structure and Function of the Body. Lion Den Study Tips. Friday, June 26, 2015. There May Not Be a Single Language Comprehension Center in the Brain. A recent paper in the journal Brain. A journal of neurology, challenges the long-held notio. The report describes research that leads one to the conclusion that although the Wernicke area ( pictured. When discussing cerebra...
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The A&P Professor: Testing as a Learning Tool | UPDATE
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Tips, content updates, teaching tools, resource links, and conversations related to teaching and learning human anatomy and physiology. Structure and Function of the Body. Lion Den Study Tips. Tuesday, May 19, 2015. Testing as a Learning Tool UPDATE. I radically changed my approach to testing. My A&P students about 13 years ago. It was was one of those experiments that had me questioning my sanity leading up to its roll-out. That's because in some fundamental ways, it challenged my experience. Further su...
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The A&P Professor: The Life Science Teaching Resource Community
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Tips, content updates, teaching tools, resource links, and conversations related to teaching and learning human anatomy and physiology. Structure and Function of the Body. Lion Den Study Tips. Wednesday, July 16, 2014. The Life Science Teaching Resource Community. Have you heard that the American Physiological Society (APS). Has expanded their Archive of Teaching Resources. Into The Life Science Teaching Resource Community. This new online community— LifeSciTRC. Along with many new tools. Of teaching res...
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The A&P Professor: RNA Interference. Again.
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Tips, content updates, teaching tools, resource links, and conversations related to teaching and learning human anatomy and physiology. Structure and Function of the Body. Lion Den Study Tips. Monday, October 13, 2014. RNA Interference. Again. Five years ago, I extolled the virtues of teaching a little bit about RNA interference (RNAi). In undergraduate A&P courses. But for a while it looked like the promise of RNAi in basic and clinical research might be sputtering. RNAi is being used to treat genetic d...
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