January 16th, 2014

Today we completed microinjections for group C (1, 2, 3). The first set of microinjections (C3) went smoothly; each rat received .01m saccharin. Unfortunately, we had to make a note that C3 was ran under the label C1. After C3, Bekah and I flipped the water for fifteen minutes for group D. The rats in C2 received .1m MSG. Rat 30 had a good left microinjection and we needed to redo the right microinjection. We also noticed that there was a little blood coming out of the left cannula following the microinjection. Later this afternoon, someone will have to agitate his cannulae. Following the C2 microinjections, I weighed out Saccharin, MSG and NaCL solutions for tomorrow. We finished up the morning microinjections with C1. In this group, boxes 1-3 received MSG and box 4 received saccharin. Bekah and I also agitated the cannulae for rats in group D.