Your nephew's sick guinea pig

 


 

 

Your nephew's sick guinea pig

 

 

 

The virtual problem is scurvy in guinea pigs.

Teaching aims are:

  • the disease “scurvy” and the involved symptoms.
  • the different conformational structures of proteins.
  • vitamin C as an essential enzymatic co-factor during collagen processing
     

Authors: K. Branitzki-Heinemann, G. Brogden, M. von Köckritz-Blickwede, H. Y. Naim, M. Fehr, K. Baur