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1-138-S-InnerEarDrugDelivery
20 Aug 2018 | | Contributor(s):: Jue Wang
Hearing loss is difficult to treat due to the inner ear location and structure. Drawing from this challenging case, this scenario guides students to transform a treatment protocol into a mathematical model. Students engage in pre-clinical studies to examine local drug delivery to the cochlea. The...
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1-032-S-DigoxinElimination
17 Aug 2018 | | Contributor(s):: Therese Shelton
We model the concentration of digoxin eliminated from the human body at a rate proportional to the concentration. This is a ``first-order reaction'' in the language of pharmacokinetics -- the study of how drugs move in the body. This activity can be used to introduce compartmentalized...
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1-131-S-CaffeineElimination
15 Aug 2018 | | Contributor(s):: Therese Shelton
We model the concentration of caffeine eliminated from the human body at a rate proportional to the concentration. This is a reaction in the language of pharmacokinetics -- the study of how drugs move in the body. This simple activity can be used to introduce differential equations, and it can be...
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1-130-S-AspirinAbsorption
15 Aug 2018 | | Contributor(s):: Therese Shelton
We model the amount of aspirin absorbed by the human body at a constant rate. This is a ``zero-order reaction'' in the language of pharmacokinetics -- the study of how drugs move in the body. This simple activity can be used to introduce differential equations and it can be used to...
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1-115-S-ModelingWithFirstOrderODEs
04 Sep 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Michael Grayling
Several models using first order differential equations are offered with some questions on formulating a differential equations model
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7-010-S-MultipleDoses
12 Oct 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Brian Winkel
Two possible multiple dose drug administration regimens are offered for modeling. A drug is to maintain a certain level (above a set minimum and below a set maximum) in the blood stream and one regimen involves bolus injections and the other involves steady drip flow over short periods of time....
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5-011A-S-ModelingIbuprofren
19 Sep 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Brian Winkel
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1-016-S-DogDrugs
04 Jun 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Brian Winkel
We offer a problem of determining the necessary drug administration in order to keep a dogsedated with specific information on half-life for an exponentially decaying presence of the drug in the body.