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It Was a Hot August Afternoon...

By Anthony C. Steyermark

It Was a Hot August Afternoon...


 

Abstract

A farmer becomes concerned after discovering a number of dead animals on his small farm, including some ducks, several deer, and a coyote, all within a single week. Fearing that someone might be poisoning his land, he calls in a veterinary pathologist to investigate. The case is designed to teach students in an upper-division comparative anatomy and physiology class about the central nervous system.

   

Date Posted

03/09/2005

Overview

Objectives

  • Learn that all vertebrate nervous systems are essentially similar.
  • Describe how an action potential is initiated and propagated.
  • Describe how neurons communicate with each other and with other cells.
  • Describe the neuro-muscular junction.
  • Apply knowledge of nervous system physiology to understanding the mechanisms of action of two neurotoxins.

Keywords

Nervous system; neurotoxin; neuro-muscular junction; action potential; cyanos; cyanobacteria; anatoxin; saxitoxin

  

Subject Headings

Physiology
Veterinary Science
Zoology

EDUCATIONAL LEVEL

Undergraduate upper division

  

FORMAT

PDF

   

TOPICAL AREAS

N/A

   

LANGUAGE

English

   

TYPE/METHODS

Interrupted

 

 

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