Program Resources - Veterinary Medicine: Program Resources Vet Med

This excerpt from John W. Kimball’s online biology textbook covers the blood’s function, cells, and cell fragments.

“This fully searchable directory features more than 800 hematological slides depicting various blood disorders and malignancies.” One can use a categorical index or keyword search to access the images.

Clotting – animations for normal and abnormal clot formation.

Includes visual quizzes for hematocrit, total RBC count, blood typing, WBC differential count, and clotting (coagulation) time.

View normal and abnormal white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets.

View videos on skinning the cat, the muscular system, the circulatory system, the urogenital system, the nervous system, and the digestive and respiratory systems.

This Auburn website includes includes labeled images of the bovine reproductive tract.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

“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.”

“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.”

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.

This website from Clemson provides labeled images in three planes: transversed, sagittal, and dorsal.

This University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine website contains twenty transverse sections and an interactive atlas of the images.

This University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine website contains images of the head and neck, thorax, and abdomen and pelvis along the sagittal, transverse, and dorsal planes.

Each lab includes dissection images that can be viewed with and without labels. Click the "more information" icon for the contents and links for each lab.

Includes labeled images of the brain, cardiovascular system, digestive system, ear, eye, hoof, respiratory system, skeleton, thoracic limb, pelvic limb, trunk, and the urogenital system. Sometimes one has to click on an image to see additional images.

Tutorials cover the location and organization of muscle fibers, nerve supply to muscle fibers, and contraction of muscle fibers. Quizzes cover general characteristics of muscle fibers and internal organization of muscle fibers.

Purdue North Central
San Diego State University College of Sciences
Wiley.com
Wisc-Online – Online Learning Object Repository – hit the next button to see the animations.

Includes animations on the chemical synapse; membrane-bound receptors, g proteins, and Ca2+ channels; voltage gated channels and the action potential; sodium-potassium exchange; function of the neuromuscular junction; and action potential propagation in an unmyelinated axon.

This University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine website includes labeled images for brain divisions, cranial nerves, and ventricles and vessels.

Includes brains of 175 species.

Includes an animation of a synaptic transmission at a neuromuscular junction. Also includes a three-question quiz.

This Whitman College website provides images and quizzes on the circulatory, digestive, excretory, nervous, reproductive, and respiratory systems. Macromedia Schockwave is required to view the images and may be freely downloaded from the site.

This Michigan State University website has images of coronal sections and the external surface that can be viewed with and without labels.

MCAT test prep video from Khan Academy

A collection of images of tissue specimens with descriptive notes. Search the library of images or quiz yourself with a random image.

Provides information and images for the digestive anatomy of cattle, goats, and sheep.

Provides interactive drawings for cats, cattle, dogs, goats, horses, pigs, and sheep. Click on the drawings to see the names of structures.

Choose Human under the heading, “Select A Taxon.” By choosing a bone from a pull-down menu and then clicking “Launch Bone Viewer,” one can see dorsal, ventral, medial, lateral, proximal, and distal views of the bone. One can also see its morphology, origins, attachments, and articulations.

Includes skulls of numerous species.

Part of the National Agricultural Library. Provides information about alternatives searching for animal research, pain and distress, and the animal welfare act.

The place to go for official information about taking the NAVLE. General information, scheduling, applying, preparing, instructions for exam day, and details on scoring.

60 questions that represent the format and content of the NAVLE. From the National Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners, the body that officially administers the NAVLE.

Searchable database of over 5 million records related to agricultural science. Two-thirds are from scientific journals, and about 3% are free full text. The library can help you access items found with an AGRIS search.

From the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization. View international statistics related to agricultural and livestock production and trade, and more.

Includes animations of canine locomotion in normal and slow speeds and step-by-step. Shows animations of walking, ambling, trotting, pacing, cantering, transverse galloping, and rotatory galloping.

Includes zoonosis updates, animal health brochures, and more.

Includes full-text research articles on obesity in dogs and zoonosis.

Includes information on animal diseases, travelling with a pet, biotechnology, animal welfare, and more.

“The Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) regulates the manufacture and distribution of food additives and drugs that will be given to animals.” Includes information on pet food recalls, animal drug products, biotechnology, and more.

Includes message boards, open forums, book reviews, abstracts, and links to helpful Web sites. Also includes a link to the Poisonous Plant Book from the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center.

This tutorial teaches you about medical words. You'll learn about how to put together parts of medical words. You'll also find quizzes to see what you've learned.

Includes three quizzes on prefixes, suffixes, and roots. Most terms cover the cardiovascular system.

This information may also be important to breeders and raisers of horses, rabbits, cats, dogs, primates and cattle

Provides diagrams of life cycles, some of which are animated. Click on the diagrams for more information about stages of the life cycle. Also provides a glossary of relevant terms.

Provides images of specimens and diagnostic images. Also provides fluke and cestode keys, a guide to nematode adults, an egg and cyst chart, and information on nematode structures.

Includes zoonosis updates, animal health brochures, and more.

Includes full-text research articles on obesity in dogs and zoonosis.

Includes information on animal diseases, travelling with a pet, biotechnology, animal welfare, and more.

Video shows how to conduct a physical examination of a dog and cat.

Access the scientific literature on nonhuman primates. Coverage spans 1940 to 2010 and includes all publication categories (articles, books, technical reports, dissertations, etc.) and many subject areas. Note: PrimateLit is no longer updated as of November 2010.

A large archive of open-access ornithological literature. Every article is available as a full-text PDF.