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Adeel Alam

Undergraduate Summer Student, UROP Scholar, 2009

Adeel is currently in the Biomedical and Electrical Engineering program at McMaster University. He has completed third year and expects to graduate in 2010.

Degree: B.Eng (expected 2010), Biomedical Engineering

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

CONTACT INFO

Room: CRL 110A

Email: alama7@mcmaster.ca

Alternate: adeeljan8@yahoo.com

Contact Number: 905-399-8396

Project Description

Adeel will be continuing on a project where the heart rate variance (HRV) of mice is tested when the stomach is put under distension. The distension should cause a stimulus to the medulla, which in-turn should send a parasympathetic response to the heart to decrease its pumping. Interstitial cells of Cajal are cells located in the stomach which provide the main stimulus to the brain. Adeel will be observing whether the abscess of these cells cause a change in the HRV.