For our global health cure course, we are examining frog organs to better understand treatments. Frog organs are very similar to human organs. For example, human and frog livers are similar. Researchers study the liver to see how humans respond to various drugs and to find cures for liver disease (Brown Med, 2012 https://med.brown.edu/gastroenterology/LiverResearchCenter). Dissecting frogs, I learned that frogs have thick skin, three lobes on the liver, and the pancreas and spleen help to digest its food.

 

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