Teaching Software

There are virtual realizations of classical experiments with animal tissue, e.g. with the frog sciatic nerve or gastrognemic muscle (SimNerv and SimMuscle) or pharmacological experiments with rat smooth muscle strips and with an isolated rat heart in the Langendorff set-up (SimVessel, SimHeart). There are other experiments which would be too difficult for a students lab but can be carried out in silico, e.g. patch-clamp recordings (SimPatch) or single fibres recordings from sensory afferents (cLabs-SkinSenses). The "Sim" programs constitute the "Virtual Physiology" series (Thieme Publ.) whereas cLabs-SkinSenses belongs to a new series of virtual computer labs (cLabs). This also includes cLabs-Neuron which offers computer animations and simulations for a better understanding of basic neuronal functions, including voltage- and current-clamp labs for single-channel and whole-cell recordings.

Selected references:        (for a more detailed publication list see Publications)

These activities are not for publication of scientific papers but to offer computer programs for teaching. A recent report about our work in this field has appeared under the title:

The realand Virtual Laboratory: A Conversation with Dr. Hans Braun in "The Biological Physicist": The Newsletter of the Division of Biological Physics of the American Physical Society, Vol. 1 No. 1 June 2001 p 5-7

    (available via: http://www.aps.org/DBP/newsletter/jun01.pdf)

Apart from our cLabs homepage (www.clabs.de) further information about these programs is given at

         www.thieme.de or thieme international

         eurca - European Resource Centre for Alternatives In Higher Education

         www.interniche.com - International Network for Human Education

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