The diary of Chris Allen through his vet student years.
Today’s Diary Entry is sponsored by Spikes World I am not quite sure how I got to this subject today, however it is something that I thought I would share my thoughts on from the past couple of months. After Continue reading Why negative tests at the vet suck…
Todays Diary Entry is sponsored by: YOUR BUSINESS HERE Something that has been my mantra of vet school so far is it is the quantity of information that I have needed to learn rather than the complexity (jinxed myself for Continue reading 13 Weeks of Vet School… (Day 117)
Today was the last Immunology lecture and was looking at hypersensitivity reactions in animals. Hypersensitivity is when the immune system exagerates the response to allegens (which is the name for antigens involved in hypersensitivity reactions) and is the cause of Continue reading Hypersensitivity (allergic reactions) and washing cats… (Day 92)
Today has been another long day, this morning went to Immunology and this afternoon has been about cows. Now today in immunology we started looking at phagocytosis, in basic terms this is when a cell “eats” another cell. Usually this Continue reading Phagocytosis, visiting the dairy farm, and snow… (Day 85)
So this morning was all on the different type of immune cells in the body which was pretty cool however the really cool bit came next. Not because of the lecture but because of all the recent breakthroughs in the Continue reading Immunoflourescent Assays and the power of light… (Day 71)
As I missed histology yesterday I rescheduled to take my credit test today, whilst I didn’t originally feel that I had done well, I got a C in the written part and a B in the practical part. I was Continue reading Histology Credit and the science behind the ELISA test… (Day 64)
Today I started the immunology section of the Microbiology module, rumours at the minute are that people on the 6 year course get to do this over 13 weeks whilst for us we have just 5 weeks which does demonstrate Continue reading The start of Immunology… (Day 57)