Word: xie
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This year, Jane C. Xie ’12 is in the process of reviving the Harvard Pre-Veterinary Society, which disappeared five years ago after the group’s founder graduated. So far, Xie has found roughly ten other pre-vets at the College, and Quimbaya says she knows of approximately 15 at the Extension School...
...Xie says the newly-born Society is still struggling to unite pre-vets as they navigate one of Harvard’s less established pre-professional routes...
When people ask Xie about her career aspirations, there often isn’t time for a lengthy enumeration of the virtues of veterinary medicine...
...separate area of research, Xie at Massachusetts General tested another anesthetic, isoflurane, on a culture of human brain cells. (Isoflurane had already been shown to cause cognitive impairment in rats.) He saw a vicious cycle of apoptosis and the accumulation of beta-amyloid protein - the sticky plaques that build up in Alzheimer's patients' brains - among the cells. But in this case, it may have been an excess of calcium that led to cell death. Xie and his colleagues have since found that the Alzheimer's drug memantine, which works by reducing calcium levels inside cells, can slow the rate...
...under way among both young children and elderly patients. Wilder anticipates that "we are about five years away from getting to the bottom of this." If anesthetics do prove to be neurotoxic, it could be a regulatory and ethical nightmare to decide how best to continue using them. For Xie's part, he thinks researchers must come up with alternative drugs for vulnerable patients if such a scenario unfolds. "Science doesn't always tell us what we want to hear. If certain drugs are dangerous to use, then we should not use them," he says...