100-day Cough: The Human Body
Hello team Human Body!
I know everyone is quite busy, so let's start to figure out what we should do for our group project a bit at a time. Let's throw some ideas out there and figure how we can approach the research together. I was thinking of doing a prezi for our project. If anyone has a better idea please share!
-Michael :D
Hey Michael!
Awesome idea! I have never used prezi before and I am quite excited to learn how to use it. Will we upload the prezi to our wiki page? how does that work?
I'd be happy to organize the material into the prezi slides since I don't know how to work with the animation features on prezi.
-Kiran
I'm checking prezi out right now - I think the format would work great with our material. Perhaps we could do a mind-map format with "100 day cough" as the Main Idea and branches leading to the different questions we have to answer. Are we able to upload videos onto prezi?Maybe we could link a video of how the upper respiratory tract functions etc?
Hey Kiran!
It sounds like a great idea. A mind map like format with branching topics would work perfectly. There should be an option to link videos from YouTube on prezi. We will also have to play around with it to see how it fits into the wiki, but the worst thing that can happen is us being able to just provide a link to it.
Would you like to make the prezi and add us to it?
-Michael
Yeah sure! Lemme try to figure it out haha. How do I add you guys?
Could you perhaps create the prezi and add us Michael? I am not too familiar with the software and am still trying to work through it
kiran94_kikimonkey@yahoo.com.sg
have you added info on it yet? coz if not, I can share mine with you guys since I started adding stuff to it already. what's ur email?
Hey Anna, I just added you to the prezi. If you guys decide to add anything new please provide the original link here and I don't mind taking care of the referencing.
Thanks Michael! I just have one concern regarding the information presented.
From one of my references, it says that adenylate cyclase toxin (one of the virulence factors of Bordetella pertussis) actually increases the production of mucous. This bacteria also secretes dermonecrotic toxin that later causes tissue destruction. However, I did not find any information on goblet cell damage, so I'm not sure if this infection decreases the mucous production at all. In many sources, they all say the opposite, that pertussis triggers an excess in mucous secretion, and as it builds up it makes the patient cough by trying to expel it.
Hey Anna, I'm not sure about that information either since it's not from my answers. Maybe Kiran can answer that for you.
Ok I'm going to start editing now! If I don't hear anything by tomorrow, I'll remove the part that says "Inflammation destroys the epithelial and goblet cells that secrete mucus; Decreased mucus production leads to decreased vascularizaton, which means less warmth and moisture is provided to incoming air; Cold, dry air enters lungs and can cause lungs to dry out" since the literature I read seems to disagree. And I'll add the part about how the toxin increases mucous production instead.
But Kiran please let me know where you got your sources from if I'm wrong! :) I'll save the original sentence so it doesn't get lost.
Michael: I don't know what you meant by original link, but for now I'll just edit some of my parts and keep track of what I changed. If you want to know which parts are different, let me know!
Hi Anna,
Please don't delete that part! My references are all at the bottom of my wiki page. I agree that Pertussis may cause toxin release that increases mucus production but we don't know that the infection is caused by Pertussis. The questions we were assigned are very general and meant to just focus on analysis we can draw from what symptoms were given eg. chronic coughing. I don't think we should include anything about Pertussis at all because that is too specific and I think that comes in other people's qns (eg. Microbiology section)
Does that kind of make sense? Let me know what you guys think! :) Also, how do we upload the prezi onto the wiki page? we need to do this by tomorrow I think
Okay no problem Kiran! :) Thanks for getting back to me. I didn't delete that part, but I did take out one sentence from a different section because it was repeating a previous point (just different wording), and just merged the two together. I also changed two of the sub-titles from the "Disruption of physiological functions" section, as well as added a few more points. Feel free to take a look and tell me if you disagree with any of them.
I saved all the stuff that I have made edits to on another file. If you guys want to take a look, I can post it here.
One more thing, I added my sources to the reference section, but there's not enough space to fit everything in the circle and I don't know how to shrink it. Can someone help with this? Thanks!
Just went through the entire prezi - looks fantastic! Michael - the arrows are frieking awesome i like it haha :D and thank you Anna for leaving the sentences as is :)
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Hey everyone! Please check your internal message inbox on connect, because I just got my feedback and grade for my Individual Response section. Connect doesn't notify you when there's a message, so just wanted to let you guys know in case you didn't check your feedback already. This way, if there's any mistakes the profs picked up, we still have some time left before the deadline to make changes! :)
Updated changes: I've added the specific three toxins released by the bacteria, and also changed the title "Hijacks the Host Defense Mechanism" to "Impairment of Mucociliary System". I made the infection more specific as well. This is all in response to the feedback I got from my individual portion. Hope you guys see this in time!