Obesity experiments

Metabolic characterization (control mouse)

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

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Glucose (mmol/L)

Insulin tolerance test

Time since injection

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Glucose (mmol/L)

Metabolic characterization (obese mouse)

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

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Glucose (mmol/L)

Insulin tolerance test

Time since injection

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

Summary of results

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

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