Cell Cultures

Question 1

Describe a hypothetical experiment to test the effectiveness of your functional product; be sure to include hypotheses, control treatment(s), expected results, and conclusions.

-Product- Flax seed, Purple sweet potato flour and Grape seed oil Enriched Multi Seed Bread- provides antioxidants and omega 3 to fight cardiovascular disease as a functional food.

What is the effective dose of your bioactive compound? how much of your product would one need to eat in order to see benefits?

Key Components for a Complete Response:

1. Summarize one functional aspect regarding your product that remains unknown or inconclusive in the literature.
2. What type of model would you use to test your hypothesis and why? Describe the objective, hypothesis, control treatments, results, and possible conclusions of your hypothetical study.
   • Example models to consider: cell cultures, microfluidics, animals, or human subjects
3. The response must be a minimum of 1 page, single-spaced, written in Times New Roman 12-pt font with 1″ margins.

Question 2

critical analysis of evidence based practice study

• In this assignment you will be given an evidence-based case study and you are required to carry out a critical analysis of how the author of the case study has performed the EBP investigation.
• The case study will become available on the module homepage during the semester
• Identify good points and weak areas of how the investigation has been conducted and suggest modifications where appropriate
• In particular comment on
  • The construction of the question
  • Search strategies employed
  • Critical appraisal of the evidence- has the author of the case study identified all significant strengths and weaknesses in the selected papers?
  • Appropriateness of the conclusions
  • Potential impact on clinical practice