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Week 5 Report from the Lab Team
Posted By: Jesse_Wolfstadt, Dr. Hawke on Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Greetings Polar Scientists!
It has been a busy week in the Hawke Lab at York University, and I am very excited to tell you about my experiences. Peter, Sophia, and I have been learning the staining and immunohistochemistry procedures that we will be using to study Weddell seal muscle. In this week's update, I will describe the two procedures that I will be using: Oil-Red-O and Metachromatic staining. As you might recall from previous updates, Oil-Red-O is used to identify intramuscular fat and Metachromatic staining is used to determine muscle fibre type.
Go to the Expedition News focus area and read the Week #5 Report from the Lab Team.
Now it's your turn...report back to the Science teams. In my report I gave some good advice to follow in performing any experiment. Post a new entry to your blog describing what you learned that you can apply in your own experiments in your classroom.
Jesse @ York University
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