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Did Foul Play Lead to the Patients' Comas? Investigating Possible Attempted Murders by Insulin & Related Compounds

Published:2016-05-01 Issue:5 Volume:78 Page:417-423
ISSN:0002-7685
Container-title:The American Biology Teacher
language:en
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Author:

Meidl Katherine¹,Browning Samantha¹,Urschler Margaret¹,Khan Basima¹,Milanick Mark¹

Affiliation:

1. KATHRYN MEIDL, SAMANTHA BROWNING, MARGARET URSCHLER, and BASIMA KHAN are students, and MARK MILANICK (milanickm@missouri.edu) is a Professor in the Department of Medical Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65212.

Abstract

The action of hormones such as insulin in contributing to life-threatening diseases such as diabetes may be difficult for students to understand. To teach students the critical details of the regulation of blood glucose and the different types of diabetes, we created a laboratory exercise using a five-patient hypoglycemic–hyperglycemic coma case.

Publisher

University of California Press

Subject

General Agricultural and Biological Sciences,Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous),Education

Link

http://online.ucpress.edu/abt/article-pdf/78/5/417/398790/abt_2016_78_5_417.pdf

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