They want us to become a cytokinologist!

Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Two down.

One more to go.

Two words to summarize the exam today---CYTOKINES OVERDOSE!

I heard curses 'flying' around the air as soon as everybody walked out the Hunter CAL.

The microbiology department is being really serious about producing the next generation of "cytokines-obsessed" doctors who are very keen about cytokines and their relation to the pathogenesis of meningitis leading to sepsis. Not only that, they also want to make sure that all the gynaecologists in the future have a profound understanding of the cytokines and the immunology behind pregnancy including antisperm antibody and the rejection of conceptus.

I give the department my deepest salute...but please don't fail me for making up so much stories about TNFalfa, IL1, IL6, macrophage, Th1 and Th2 (I didn't even know how they relate to meningitis and pregnancy specifically but they are the only cytokines and related immune cells that I could think of) =___='''.

I hope, miraculously, my stories will be reasonably acceptable though they might not be as interesting as those told by Prof. Frank Griffin.

Why don't you ask something about HIV, I can tell you the entire universe about HIV because I've spend the whole Tuesday afternoon studying it.

However, I've learned something very important today. Something that my mum always told me...不要让大便到了屁股才去挖洞 (I don't see the validity of this proverb to our generation since we have a flushable toilet but anyway...).
One just couldn't digest everything in a day.

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