Tuesday, March 11, 2008
was SO tempted to take a picture of the dead toad.
today, i had physiology lab. we got to disect a dead Cane Toad. apparently the heart still beats. so basically today's experiment was to see the different effects of drugs to the heart rate.
when i saw the toad, i went pale. in this lab students work in pairs; so one disect the toad and the other record the heart rate with computerized equipment. don't have to guess which task i volunteered to do.
my partner was Raihana. she was a pro!!! she disected the toad like NOTHING. well, she took units that involved alot of disecting animal parts so it was no problem for her.
so yeah, the toad's heart still beats. somehow if the heart is kept diluted with special reagent, it will continue beating.
today, we expose the heart to all kinds of drugs. the ones that could increase the heart rate as well as the ones that decreases it.
i thought Raihana had a tough task with the toad. i.was.wrong. the heart rate was translated to the computer and it was really hard to make sense of the recorded output. the device was new to me and when i asked my lab coordinator she wasn't a pro either. my brain nerves were narrowing with blood rushing through when i found out about that. luckily there was another lab coordinator. so towards the end, i got the hang of it. oh yeah, did i tell you that i was a 3 hours lab. so yeah, Raihana and i spent every second of it. hahaha. it was all good fun.
Dariah; 5:35 PM
