How Do YOU Pronounce It? | TAPP Episode 16
News& Notes | pig brains, new DNA found, TAPP, HAPS roadtrip(9 min)Pronouncing issues with A&P terms(10 min)The A&P Student blog(1.5 min) If you cannot see or activate the audio playerclick here. FollowThe A&P Professor onTwitter,Facebook,Blogger,Nuzzel,Tumblr, orInstagram! (0:50)News& NotesPig brains kept alive in the lab.Scientists 'keep pigs' brains alive without a body for up to 36 hours' (article in The Guardian)Researchers are keeping pig brains alive outside the body (report in MIT Technology Review)Researchers Succeed in Keeping Disembodied Pig Brains Alive (article in The Scient...
Source: The A and P Professor - May 7, 2018 Category: Physiology Authors: Kevin Patton Source Type: blogs
Actin & Myosin - A Love Story | TAPP Radio 15
Why does theGolgi apparatus looks so weird?(5.5 min)Alove story analogy for muscle contraction?(8 min)Don't forget theAlexa skill for this podcast! (2 min)If you cannot see or activate the audio playerclick here.FollowThe A&P Professor onTwitter,Facebook,Blogger,Nuzzel,Tumblr, orInstagram!(0:47) The Golgi apparatus has a distinctive flattened shape. It turns out that it's the functioning of the cytoskeleton that is responsible.Why the Golgi Apparatus Looks So Funny (Kevin's blog post) GOLPH3 bridges phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate and actomyosin to stretch and shape the golgi to promote budding. ...
Source: The A and P Professor - April 30, 2018 Category: Physiology Authors: Kevin Patton Source Type: blogs
Are Learning Styles Real? Why or Why Not? | TAPP Radio 14
Can adult brains makenew neurons? Again.(4 min)See you atHAPS 2018?(5.5 min)Learning styles. Harm or help? Or a bit of both? (12 min)If you cannot see or activate the audio playerclick here.FollowThe A&P Professor onTwitter,Facebook,Blogger,Nuzzel,Tumblr, orInstagram!0:57 Kevin revisits the notion of whether neurogenesis (growing new neurons) can occur in the adult brain, particularly in the hippocampus. A past episode mentioned a study that said "no" to adult neurogenesis in the brain, bucking current thought. However, a newer paper now supports adult brain neurogenesis. This is fun, isn't it?New Evidence Suggest...
Source: The A and P Professor - April 23, 2018 Category: Physiology Authors: Kevin Patton Source Type: blogs
Playful & Serious Is the Perfect Combo for A & P | TAPP Radio 13
Why the termmeatus is weird.(3 min)Convenient ways to subscribe to TAPP Radio.(2 min)Playfulness and analogies have a role in storytelling.(14 min)If you cannot see or activate the audio playerclick here.FollowThe A&P Professor onTwitter,Facebook,Blogger,Nuzzel,Tumblr, orInstagram!(0:46) The term meatus is properly pluralized as meatus ormeatuses (notmeati)Meatus | Weird Word (post explainingmeatus fromo-log-y the terminology blog)Meatus as a fourth-declension noun (page from a terminology text)(3:31) There are a lot of options for convenient listening to this podcast!Subscribe page (links and directions on ...
Source: The A and P Professor - April 16, 2018 Category: Physiology Authors: Kevin Patton Source Type: blogs
Playful & Serious Is the Perfect Combo for A & P | TAPP Radio 13
Why the termmeatus is weird.(3 min)Convenient ways to subscribe to TAPP Radio.(2 min)Playfulness and analogies have a role in storytelling.(14 min)If you cannot see or activate the audio playerclick here.FollowThe A&P Professor onTwitter,Facebook,Blogger,Nuzzel,Tumblr, orInstagram! (0:46) The term meatus is properly abbreviatedmeatus ormeatuses (notmeati)Meatus | Weird Word (post explainingmeatus fromo-log-y the terminology blog)Meatus as a fourth-declension noun (page from a terminology text)(3:31) There are a lot of options for convenient listening to this podcast!Subscribe page (links and directions on ho...
Source: The A and P Professor - April 16, 2018 Category: Physiology Authors: Kevin Patton Source Type: blogs
Storytelling is the Heart of Teaching A & P | TAPP Radio 12
Microglia prune synapses to remodel brain circuits.(6 min) Kevin's new online seminar onLong-Term Learning.(1 min) Teaching A&P tells thestory of the human body.(15 min)If you cannot see or activate the audio playerclick here.FollowThe A&P Professor onTwitter,Facebook,Blogger,Nuzzel,Tumblr, orInstagram!Multiple synapse heads send out filopodia (green)converging on one microglial cell (red),as seen by focused ion beam scanningelectron microscopy (FIBSEM). IMAGE: L. Weinhard, EMBL Rome(0:47) New information shows that microglia nibble on presynaptic neurons using trogocytosis, rather than phagocytosis, to prune synap...
Source: The A and P Professor - April 9, 2018 Category: Physiology Authors: Kevin Patton Source Type: blogs
Test Debriefing Boosts Student Learning | TAPP Radio 11
Has anew organ been discovered?(4 min) Students benefit fromdebriefing after each test. (18.5 min)If you cannot see or activate the audio playerclick here.FollowThe A&P Professor onTwitter,Facebook,Blogger,Nuzzel,Tumblr, orInstagram!Interstitium.Illustration by Jill Gregory.Printed with permission fromMount Sinai Health System,licensed under CC-BY-ND. (0:46) Has a new human organ discovered? Or is this news mostly hype? Or is the answer somewhere in the middle?Structure and Distribution of an Unrecognized Interstitium in Human Tissues (original research report)Newly-discovered human organ may help ...
Source: The A and P Professor - April 2, 2018 Category: Physiology Authors: Kevin Patton Source Type: blogs
Nine Super Strategies for Teaching the Skeleton | TAPP Radio 10
NewAlexa skill for this podcast!Free media from theNational Science Foundation.Tips forteaching the skeleton.If you cannot see or activate the audio playerclick here.FollowThe A&P Professor onTwitter,Facebook,Blogger,Nuzzel,Tumblr, orInstagram!(1:25) If you use an Alexa-enabled device, you can now enable "the a. p. professor podcast" Alexa skill to listen to any episode, navigate within episodes, and save your place for your next listening session. Just keep this in mind when you do eventually join this growing trend!Enable the Alexa skill (Kevin's instructions on how to enable and use the new skill for this podcast; i...
Source: The A and P Professor - March 26, 2018 Category: Physiology Authors: Kevin Patton Source Type: blogs
Nine Super Strategies for Teaching the Skeleton | TAPP Radio 10
NewAlexa skill for this podcast!Free media from theNational Science Foundation. Tips forteaching the skeleton.If you cannot see or activate the audio playerclick here.FollowThe A&P Professor onTwitter,Facebook,Blogger,Nuzzel,Tumblr, orInstagram!(1:25) If you use an Alexa-enabled device, you can now enable "the a. p. professor podcast" Alexa skill to listen to any episode, navigate within episodes, and save your place for your next listening session. Just keep this in mind when you do eventually join this growing trend!Enable the Alexa skill (Kevin's instructions on how to enable and use the new skill for this podcast; ...
Source: The A and P Professor - March 26, 2018 Category: Physiology Authors: Kevin Patton Source Type: blogs
