This blog about my research in MRI, obesity, and being a graduate student. This entry has been dated in the future to make it visible to all visitors. (In fact it's dated when I plan to finish my PhD.) I hope it doesn't show up on Friends pages all the time ( Read more... )

Or this entry could be called "How I learned to stop worrying and start enjoying my research." Hey arasus, is this random enough for you ( Read more... )

You haven't had the full grad student experience until, in desperation, you do this: you find black tape, black paper and a black trash bag for a backdrop. Then you use your lab's dilapidated 8 year old digital camera to take pictures of two rodents who are scrambling around, licking each other's rears, and copiously defecating. They also fight ( Read more... )

Adipogenic potential of multiple human adenoviruses in vivo and in vitro in animals
Leah D. Whigham,1 Barbara A. Israel,2 and Richard L. Atkinson1
http://ajpregu.physiology.org/cgi/content/full/290/1/R190

ABSTRACT

Human adenovirus-36 (Ad-36) increases ( Read more... )

You'd be wrong to think that just because campus is closed this week that all grad students would get a break. No, we're actually pretty busy right now. Some of the first year grad students do go home, but a lot of us are too far from home to afford the plane flight, and all of us need to catch up on research and/or lab work ( Read more... )

So we talked about NSAIDs and other fun drugs once, and I'm writing this mostly to clear things up for myself.

Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAID) by chemical structure (blatently stolen text)

• Carboxylic Acid Groups
• Salicylates (Acetylsalicylate (Aspirin
  ( Read more... )

Title: Greater beneficial effects of visceral fat reduction compared with subcutaneous fat reduction on parameters of the metabolic syndrome: a study of weight reduction programmes in subjects with visceral and subcutaneous obesity.

Author: Park, H S; Lee, K

Appears In: Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Associationvol. 22, ( Read more... )

D. Laaksonen, J. Nuutinen, T. Lahtinen, A. Rissanen, and L. K. Niskanen, "Changes in abdominal subcutaneous fat water content with rapid weight loss and long-term weight maintenance in abdominally obese men and women," International ( Read more... )

B. Kunnecke, P. Verry, et al. "Quantitative body composition analysis in awake mice and rats by magnetic resonance relaxometry," Obesity Research, vol. 12, no. 10, pp. 1604-1615, 2004.

Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy can be used for whole body fat ( Read more... )

After taking 19-21 credit hours per semester for every undergrad semester, doing one semester with 3 grad classes and 3 undergrad, and taking classes out of order, I never had a problem with coursework. But now I think I might have finally overloaded my schedule. I'm taking EBME 431, EBME 403, and NTRN 452, and I'm TA for EBME 320/410. I also ( Read more... )