April 21st

Agenda:
4.3.3: Kidney Donation
TRAINER BOX DIRECTIONS!!

WEBCAM LINK!!

Online Resources: 

Part I: Donating a Kidney

1. Work with a partner to brainstorm what steps would be necessary to remove someone’s kidney. Think back to what you know about the kidney from HBS. Write down your ideas in your laboratory journal.

2. View the “Single Port Donor Nephrectomy” video available from:http://www.jove.com/video/2368/single-port-donor-nephrectomy (Links to an external site.).

April 18th 2016

Agenda:

• Activity 4.3.2: Finding a Match
• Protein Gel Lab on Thursday

Online Resources:

Review Blood type diagram:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ABO_blood_type.svg

Review blood typing using the following website:

• Nobelprize.org’s Blood Groups, Blood Typing and Blood Transfusions: The discovery of blood groups found at:http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/medicine/landsteiner/readmore.html (Links to an external site.)

Review ABO blood type genotypes using the following website:

• The University of Arizona’s The Biology Project: “Blood Types Tutorial: The Human ABO Markers – The A, B, and O alleles” found at:http://www.biology.arizona.edu/Human_Bio/problem_sets/blood_types/markers.html (Links to an external site.)

HLA Gene blood typing:

• The UC DAVIS website on HLA testing: http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/transplant/learnabout/learn_hla_type_match.html