Instructional case studies

Case studies that place glycoscience concepts in a research or clinical context for classroom use.

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National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science

Menstrual Cycle Misfire: When Biochemistry Meets Burnout

Created by Dr. Megna Tiwari and Dr. Erin Dolan

This interrupted case uses reproductive physiology to bring glycoscience into the classroom. Students follow a student whose chronic stress and low energy availability lead to menstrual dysfunction, then work through hormone profiles, protein structures, receptor-signaling assays and mass spectrometry data to discover how altered glycosylation of luteinizing hormone (LH) changes its activity. Along the way they learn to distinguish hormone concentration from bioactivity and to see glycosylation as a core regulator of protein function.

Undergraduate upper division and clinical education · Biochemistry, cell and molecular biology, physiology

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