I love doing experiments with the rats. I just love working with animals. It's really fun. The results are very different. My current project is looking at hemoglobin in vitro.
Head trauma creates lipid peroxidation.
In an in vitro model for head trauma this compound hemoglobin is peroxidated. When you take it into the rat brain, it's like a measure for brain injury. It's not the same as in a test tube. The brain has ways to compensate. You don't know what a whole-animal mechanism does.