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Hot Under the Collar: Weighing the Dangers of a Weight-Loss Drug

Journal of College Science Teaching—May/June 2011

This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. In this month’s issue the goal of the case study is for students to expand their understanding of membrane permeability and the proton motive force in mitochondria through the study of 2,4—dinitrophenol (DNP) action.

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