Thursday, Sept 13:  Hormone assays 

Lecture #3

• Advantages and disadvantages of bioassays
• Radioimmunoassay
• ELISA
  

Slides

• For Internet Explorer: Lecture 3 slides For Netscape: Lecture 3 slides   If you click on the movie-screen icon in the lower right corner, you'll get the view as I showed in class.  Hitting the space bar brings you to the next screen.  If you can't see this in your browser, let me know, and I can save it in a different format.

• Nothing in Sherwood, so try some of these if you want to read more:
• Bioassay, radioimmunoassay and ELISA are described in An Introduction to Behavioral Endocrinology, by Randy Nelson.  Pdf file, requires Acrobat Reader. 
• ELISA animation A little different from the kind I described in class
• Radioimmunoassay and ELISA from Texas A&M 
  

Writing assignment #1:  What they measured  due today

• Problem Set #1

Lecture question

• Lecture question #1

Optional reading - recent research

• Rosalyn Yalow won the Nobel Prize in 1977 for developing radioimmunoassay with Solomon Berson