Brains is
Meat!!
K. Jensen
Added 3.23.02. Poems by Jensen
Relative Risk (RR)
In
cohort and cross sectional studies we compute
It is difficult to assess which occurred first, exposure or
disease
P1234 are the
proportions of individuals in each respective cell
managing cats and risk
hypothesized associations
backward collection of data.
Information on confounding factors may not be available
Information may not be available from owner’s memories
Generalizability is a matter of willingness to generalize.
Inherit the problem of separation
mathematically equal to the disease.
Adaptive randomisation
Masking is a process imposed for
the purpose of hiding
some facts
Blindness of patients can be achieved by giving them a
placebo
A placebo is an intervention
Depart systematically from the true values
Randomization tends to assure significance
the disadvantages, beside the ethical,
are the
expenses
Significance of association
The assignment remains masked
Results are likely to be irreproducible
they must be distinguishable from one
another
there must be a justification for
inclusion
there must be reasonable doubt and an
ethical base
Biologically relevant
Randomized control
Develop an interface for data transmission
establish a uniform response
and coordinate disengagement from treatment
The choice depends largely on biological and practical
consequences.
Added 11.18.00. Poems by Jensen/Adkins
Alcohol Machinery
Benzoic acid
is so widely distributed
in plants that
the urine of
all plant-eating animals
(including humans)
contains hippuric acid,
a compound
synthesized in the kidneys
by the combination
of benzoic acid
with the amino acid,
glycine.
Pecus is Fine
Pecus is fine
Was home for lunch
No books yet
Got my insurance straightened out
Frantically studying
Saw a funny video today
about ejaculating a stallion
You have to wear
a helmet and use a
large "artificial vagina"
"If you should find
yourself drenched in ingesta,
go home, take a shower and plan a quiet evening."
And yes,
I did just take a shower.
We just had a hands on,
or should I say,
hands in
experience
with ruminent digestion.
Introduce Elly, the fistulated cow.
Yes, fistulated meaning she has
an open hole which connects her
stomach to the outside world.
Most of the time this hole is closed
with a plug featuring
a nice plexiglass window.
Other days, such as today, you
realize that the hole is just
large enough to fit an arm inside.
Elly will stand there,
contentedly chewing her cud,
while veterinary students such as
myself go up to their shoulder
investigating the intricacies of the 4
compartment stomach.
Feel contractions over your forearm,
feel the epithelial differences between
the different compartments,
stick your finger in the orifice
between the esophagus and rumen,
and catch a bolus of
food after it is swallowed
and bring it out to examine.
And you thought a rectal exam was fun.
You can stand there
watching the waves of food move
by as she has contractions.
Methane gas spurts out in visible clouds.
Elly's real purpose in life
is to provide fermentating
ruminal contents for
other poor cows who
have something go wrong
inside their own rumen.
Should this happen,
their stomachs are emptied
and flushed and contents from
Elly's stomach are used
to re-estabish the normal flora.
As you may or may not know,
ruminent digestion is a precarious
symbiotic relationship between
the cow and millions
of protozoa or bacteria.
Should something go wrong in
either population,
digestion becomes a problem.
Not to drone on about the
more droll aspects of my week.
Suffice it to say, there's
a lot more to the story.
Windswept Meadows
Standardbred breeding operation
suffering from abortion outbreak.
Cases generally consist of foal
being aborted a month before
due, no obvious lesions,
placenta intact without lesions.
Breeding operation of 200 horses-
30 broodmares in barn, in last
1-2 months of gestation.
Vaccinated routinely.
New mare introduced one month
ago with unknown vaccine history.
Another mare begins showing
neurological signs-ataxic,
large atonic bladder.
Diagnosis made of
Equine herpes
virus
I.