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Lab 4 Online Assessment
- The allantois, identified in the placental cord, is continuous with what anatomical structure?
- Identify the 3 vascular shunts, and their location, in the embryonic circulation.
- Identify the Group project sub-section that you will be researching. (Add to project page and your individual assessment page)
--[[User:Z3292953 13:17, 3 August 2011 (EST)
Lab Attendance
I was here for Lab 2, you saw me but I didn't do lab attendance.
--z3292953 11:03, 11 August 2011 (EST)
Lab 1
Question 1
-The first in vitro birth was Louise Brown in 1978 in The UK. The Nobel prize went to Robert G Edwards in 2010
Question 2
- Pregnancy after Age 50: Defining Risks for Mother and Child. Kort DH, Gosselin J, Choi JM, Thornton MH, Cleary-Goldman J, Sauer MV. Am J Perinatol. 2011 Aug 1. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 21809262 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
The paper discusses the risks involved with pregancy for women over 50 years of age. It compares risks such as gestational diabetes, hypertensive disorders and abnormal placentation for women over 50 with women under 50.
Question 3
- Spina bifida and atrial septal defect --z3292953 21:36, 3 August 2011 (EST)
Lab 2
Question 1
Identify the ZP protein that spermatozoa binds and how is this changed (altered) after fertilisation. The protein that binds sperm is zonapellucida 3. After fertilisation, enzymes affect ZP3 modifying it, which causes it to not be able to bind.
Question 2
Identify a review and a research article related to your group topic. Novel concepts in evaluating antimicrobial therapy for bacterial lung infections in patients with cystic fibrosis.Rogers GB, Hoffman LR, Döring G. J Cyst Fibros.2011 Jul 18. [Epub ahead of print]
Vitamin D receptor agonists inhibit pro-inflammatory cytokine production from the respiratory epithelium in cystic fibrosis.McNally P, Coughlan C, Bergsson G, Doyle M, Taggart C, Adorini L, Uskokovic MR, El-Nazir B, Murphy P, Greally P, Greene CM, McElvaney NG.J Cyst Fibros. 2011 Jul 22. [Epub ahead of print]
--z3292953 15:43, 9 August 2011 (EST)
