How can I measure MMP-1 protein activity or protein level from liver tissue?

Instead of checking only the mRNA level, I want to check the active protein level of MMP-1 in Liver tissue from mice. How can I do that?

03 March 2021 1,763 2 View

Binary Logistic Generalized Linear Mixed model in SPSS. Is it doable?

I want to analyses the proportion of swimming sperm of three species of fish in two salinities. To analyse the proportion of swimming sperm in a Generalized Linear Model, I would use a Binary...

03 March 2021 2,297 3 View

Looking for Materials with high thermal expansion coefficient and high temperature resistance?

03 March 2021 8,272 1 View

Guidelines for survey (question type) analysis?

Hi. Please tell me what guidelines should i need to follow for questionaries' type research work in India. It is not hospital based work, we are conduction basic institutional based qualitative...

03 March 2021 2,037 3 View

What are the values needed for gabor filter's parameter for cifar10 data?

Hi, I implemented a code to gabor filter cifar10 data but the images after being filtered and stacked are not clear like the original images. I think the problem is in the way I am using the...

03 March 2021 6,317 1 View

Can we block unwanted images during the x-ray prediction?

i am try to classify the x-ray images. During classification , can i block unwanted images (except x-ray image).

03 March 2021 7,100 1 View

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03 March 2021 5,360 2 View

What techniques can I use to determine the miscibility of polymer blends?

The term miscibility refers to the single-phase state in thermodynamics. I do not mean the compatibility of different components. To determine the miscibility I know several techniques such as...

03 March 2021 4,107 4 View

Sample dilution for quantitative analysis using ELISA?

If the detection range is in ng/ml but the reference range is in ug/ml for a molecule or protein in serum or plasma .how to dilute and what is the initial volume to be taken for quantitative analysis

02 March 2021 7,670 3 View

The procedure compute?

02 March 2021 5,204 3 View

Any references about insects or animals that can damage or weathering of rock or fossil material?

Are there any references to insects or animals that can cause damage or weathering to the rock or fossil material? books or paper that would be nice. Thank you very much!

24 February 2021 6,805 3 View

Is this the fragment of a sauropod tooth?

Dear colleagues. Fragments of this species are very rare from a terrestrial Lower Cretaceous locality from Germany. Up to now from this locality sauropods could not be proved with certainty. Other...

14 February 2021 2,310 1 View

What acid can be used to dissolve limestone to extract microfossils?

I am trying to extract possible Loriciferans from mudstone, attempts with acetic acid (15%) and chloridric acid (37%) have failed to dissolve the rock, would a higher concentration (50%) of HCl...

17 December 2020 5,897 7 View

Hybodontiformes - last survivors?

Hello Everyone, I just ran into the work of Boisvert et al., 2019, in which I found fig. 4.2 a bit confusing. It shows, that Hybodontiformes (pale green) survived till the Miocene, however, as...

13 December 2020 5,180 3 View

Since I am design automatized grader for forest seeds, it is important for me to know the following?

1. Is there a difference between a dormant seed, for example, of Scots pine, a fossilized dead seed, and an active live one by spectrometric or other characteristics? 2. Is it possible to...

26 November 2020 9,275 2 View

Which are the drawbacks of using a medical CT for scanning fossils?

I am in the need of scanning some fossils for analyzing their inner structure. Unfortunately I don't have access to a proper CT or micro-CT of industrial use that suits nicely fossils and neither...

16 November 2020 1,748 6 View

How did these marble-like limestone stones formed?

There is a small section of a beach south of Tiros, Greece where most of the gravel is made up of these marble-like stones. While I was there suddenly several waves came ashore, but the sea was...

26 October 2020 5,797 4 View

Is there any report of commensalic/parasitic/symbiotic relationship between fossil communities from Indian examples?

I would like to collect and understand information on commensalic/parasitic/symbiotic interactions among fossil communities from Indian geological records. if there are any reports/publications in...

14 October 2020 6,253 1 View

A white mass inside the head of a cretaceous ant. What can it be?

I have a small piece of Burmese amber with a worker of the stem ant Gerontoformica sp. When focusing the head using incident light, it can be seen a white bilateral structure with several lateral...

26 August 2020 9,688 10 View

What are these bioclasts?

I'm having trouble identifying the round bioclasts indicated by white arrows. Could they be transverse sections of the elements indicated by black arrows? If so, could they be some kind of spicule?

22 July 2020 8,595 13 View