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So I thought I'd show you guys a bit of what I'm doing at my internship every day. I work with a video microscope so I'm able to capture images of the blood vessels I work with.

So this is a vein that I worked on this morning. It's taken from the intestine of a rat, and this image was taken after it was all cleaned of the fat and everything (that was the skill that I took longest to get a hang of, but I'm a total pro now! \o/)



Then I treated it with increasing doses of the hormone endothelin, which causes it to contract, and it ended up like this:


If anyone's curious about the details, feel free to ask me questions! :)

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[nebulein.livejournal.com]

Krebs I believe was the name of a scientist... we also have part of photosynthesis named after him, the Krebs Cycle. Thats weird about the word in German!
"it's what we call ironic"

a cat? oh wow. we dissected a fish once, but i preferred to walk around school and talk to some other kids wo didn't want to stay in the room. (we had open doors day, so kids that were considering going to our school were running around and visiting classes, i think we scared quite some of them away *lol*) couldn't really stand the smell. i never wanted to know what was going on in my body. i'm sure you'll be a great scientist.

and sorry for asking so many holes into you, thanks for answering and explaning everything so patiently. i'll stop now ^^;