Obesity experiments

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Control Obese Summary

Metabolic characterization (control mouse)

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Here you will perform a glucose tolerance and insulin tolerance test on a control mouse.

To perform these tests:

  1. Draw some glucose/insulin into the syringe from the vial.
  2. Use it to inject the mouse and set the stopwatch running.
  3. At time t=15 min, use the pipette to draw blood from the tail of the mouse and place a drop of blood on the glucometer strip.
  4. Enter the measured glucose level into the table.
  5. Fast-track the rest of the data collection by clicking the button below the test.
  6. Go to the "Summary" tab (above) and check that your collected data has been transferred over to the table.

Note that we have already measured the baseline level of glucose in the blood for you (see table and graph).


Glucose tolerance test

Time since injection

00:00:00

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0m 15m 30m 60m 120m
Glucose (mmol/L)

Insulin tolerance test

Time since injection

00:00:00

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0m 15m 30m 60m 120m
Glucose (mmol/L)

Metabolic characterization (obese mouse)

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This simulation was designed with a desktop interface in mind, and may not function correctly on smaller screens or mobile devices.

Here you will perform a glucose tolerance and insulin tolerance test on an obese mouse. Instructions are available in the control tab.

Note that we have already measured the baseline level of glucose in the blood for you (see table and graph).


Glucose tolerance test

Time since injection

00:00:00

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0m 15m 30m 60m 120m
Glucose (mmol/L)

Insulin tolerance test

Time since injection

00:00:00

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0m 15m 30m 60m 120m
Glucose (mmol/L)

Summary of results

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This simulation was designed with a desktop interface in mind, and may not function correctly on smaller screens or mobile devices.

This table will populate for you as you fill out the tables in the previous tabs.

Group Test 0m 15m 30m 60m 120m
Control Glucose
Control Insulin
Obese Glucose
Obese Insulin

Once you have collected all the data (i.e. the summary table above is completely filled out) a link will appear below to download the class data for you to perform statistical analyses on.

Download class data

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