Enhancement of Metabolism and Gas Exchange Labs in Physiology

圣十字医院的动物生理学实验室提供了一种相当独特的实验室体验。学生不仅要做许多此类实验室中常见的练习，而且还被大力鼓励他们保持独立，理解实验工作的方方面面：设计、伦理、设备操作原则、作用和变异来源、解释以及书面和口头陈述。最近，我们也纳入了独立的项目。然而，我们一直受到两个关键设备的缺乏的阻碍：氧气和二氧化碳分析仪。尽管在其他方面，我们的装备格外精良，但缺乏轻松分析恢复性气体的能力，大大降低了对课程(强调修复和新陈代谢)至关重要的实验室的质量。它严格限制了学生项目的范围，迫使他们做的事情比他们能够和希望做的要少。为了纠正这种情况，我们要求增加现有的一个氧气分析仪和三个二氧化碳分析仪。

The Animal Physiology labs at Holy Cross offer a rather unique lab experience. Not only do the students do a number of exercises typical to many such labs, but they also are heavily encouraged to be independent and to understand all aspects of experimental work: design, ethics, principles of the operation of equipment, the role an sources of variation, interpretation and written and oral presentation. Recently, we have also incorporated independent projects. However, we have been hampered by lack of two critical pieces of equipment: oxygen and carbon dioxide analyzers. Whereas in other regards, we are exceptionally well equipped, the lack of ability to easily analyze reparatory gases greatly reduces the quality of labs that are central to the course (which emphasizes reparation and metabolism). It severely restricts the scope of student projects and forces them to do less than they are capable of and wish to do. To remedy this situation, we are requesting an oxygen analyzer to augment the one already present and three carbon dioxide analyzers.