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Cat Nictitating Membrane

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An interactive, menu driven program which simulates experiments on the superior cervical ganglion-nictitating membrane preparation of the cat (in vivo) to teach the pharmacology of ganglionic transmission and sympathetically innervated smooth muscle.

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Sheffield BioScience Programs (Scotland)
Price: £199 Price is for departmental multiuser/network license (education)

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Review by MV Clos of Dept. de Farmacologia, de Terapeutica i de Toxicologia, Fac. Medicine, Campus Bellaterra, SPAIN (commissioned by eurca)

Summary
This programme reinforces the learning of some pharmacological aspects of sympathetic ganglionic neurotransmission and it is a very useful smooth muscle preparation. It is suitable as a full complement to teach in undergraduate courses (Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, Pharmacy and Biology)....

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David Brayden (David.Brayden@ucd.ie) from Ireland 22/1/2003
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The Cat Nictitating Membrane program worked well as a 2 hour tutorial to 20 vet students working through it on their own PCs and guided by a supervisor. It linked into the autonomic pharmacology lectures and indeed was used as an exam question. The program was used pretty much as it is laid out on the CD, but the students did not go into the more advanced areas. Model answers for teachers on this and indeed on all of the interactive CDs would be a great help and a good addition to the "package" (as long as they could be kept away from students. Sometimes we have post-graduate students taking charge of the class and they might not be as sure of the material as the academic supervisor. None of us are experts in all areas of pharmacology and it would help make sure that the students were not being led astray inadvertently. We felt that there was a mistake on the CD in the ACh pattern as in one of the options (either ganglion or NM) with nerve stimulation "on" there was no shift upwards in baseline before addition.