Carnegie-Vincent Library

Links for Anatomy and Physiology and MFM Animations, Movies, and Interactive Tutorials
Click here for links to animations, movies and interactive tutorials for general references, the cardiovascular system, blood circulation, blood, lymphatic and immune system, respiratory system, urinary system; fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base homeostasis; digestive system, metabolism, reproductive system, embryology and development, and genetics.

Animated Tutorials: Molecular Biology
Dr. Henderson recommends the following animations: life cycle of an mRNA, life cycle of a protein, mRNA splicing, and translation.

Cell Motility, Myosin, and Extravasation
The eight-minute-long video entitled “Inner Life” shows cell motility. Page also includes a link to a detailed animated tutorial on myosin that focuses on myosin 2 and myosin 5 and a link to an animated tutorial on rolling neutrophils, integrin activation, transendothelial migration, and extravasation in leukocytes (neutrophils, lymphocytes, and monocytes).

CELLS alive!
Interactive exercises allow you to examine cell structures, see the stages of mitosis, and learn about the immune system, the cell cycle, cell structure and function, and microbes.

Cellular transport animations
Following an overview, this website provides annotated animations on membranes, diffusion/osmosis, passive transport, and active transport.

Citric Acid Cycle
This Wiley site provides animations and review questions for sections for an introduction, cellular location, cyclic overview, catabolism, anabolism and catabolism, sources of acetyl-coa (fatty acidcs, amino acids, and monosaccharides), reactants and products, cyclical reaction pathway, fate of acetyl-coa carbon, regulation: inhibition, regulation: activation, energetics (anaerobic and aerobic),  and anaplerotic reactions.

ETC animations
“This animation of the Electron Transport Chain (ETC) is designed to show the major events.  For the sake of clarity the protein complexes in the membranes are shown as “blobs”….compounds turn blue when they are reduced and red when oxidized.”

Glycolysis animations
“For the sake of clarity this animation of glycolysis does not show the enzymes that catalyze each reaction, and only the carbon skeletons of the intermediates are shown. You should note the major stages in glycolysis, especially the changes in energy content.”

Virtual Cell Animation Collection
Includes animations for atp synthase, the electron transport chain, protein trafficking, protein modification, protein recycling, insulin signaling, constitutive secretion, regulated secretion, mitochondrial protein transport, photosynthesis (light), photosystem II, mitosis, transcription, regulated transcription, mRNA processing, mRNA splicing, translation, and lac operon. Created by the North Dakota State University Molecular and Cellular Biology Learning Center.