Overview
Checkpoint #1 is due by no later than 11:59 p.m. (Eastern) by the end of Unit 1. Consult the Disease Project information sheet & rubric for specific details about project content, requirements, and evaluation. Students should be regularly working on their Disease Projects each & every week. Complete each of the following for this Checkpoint Assignment:
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Literature search activity:
Performing literature searches, accessing full versions of online articles, and downloading PDFs & high-resolution figures, will be critically important for this class and for the Disease Project in particular. To complete this short activity, first log-in as a JHU-subscribed user to the Sheridan or Welch library site -- use the links provided within the Resource Gallery. Once logged in, then do the following:
- Perform an advanced PubMed search for: all review articles published in 2014 and 2015 with the word "prion" in their titles. Take a full-page screen shot of the first displayed page of your "Search results". Via those search results, access the full online version of the Nature Reviews Neurology article by Mead & Reilly, published in 2015; download the PDF of the article, the image (jpg) file of Figure 1, and the PPT slide of Figure 1. Submit the screen shot, the PDF, the JPG, the JPEG, & the PPT that you retrieved, via the assignment link above.
- Find & download the PDF of the following article: Cadman et al. (1994), Regulation of the release of interleukin-6 from human astrocytoma cells. Journal of Neurochemistry, 63:980-987. Submit the PDF that you retrieved, via the assignment link above.
THE TOPICS THAT I CHOSE ARE:
- Schizophrenia
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder