Testosterone or DHT deficient mice or conditional knockout available?

Hi there I've a congenic strain of mice that exhibits a phenotype dependent on testis (lost following orchiectomy) and was wondering if i can assess the contribution of Testosterone or DHT using a...

09 October 2018 2,379 2 View

Looking for some help converting genomic coordinates to genes?

Hi there I've a total of 8000 list of genomic coordinates from mouse that I want to convert to gene names, is there a software out there that can do it quickly rather than I doing them manually...

06 July 2016 3,880 6 View

How to collate sequence data from different databases in excel ?

Hi there I am analyzing SNPs from two different datasets that once collated will provide a complete picture of haplotype blocks. The issue I am facing here is there are SNPs that are found in both...

06 July 2016 8,081 1 View

Mouse SNP query: duplication of strain data?

06 July 2016 3,973 1 View

How much Retro-orbital blood can we safely withdraw from mice?

Hi, i am planning to measure some cytokines in mouse serum at different time points in my model and was wondering if anyone has done these retro-orbital blood collection and the amount that one...

08 September 2015 7,685 3 View

What is the dihydrotestosterone dosage in mice for oral administration?

Hi there, i am looking for the appropriate dosage of DHT in C57BL/6 mice that can be given orally to compensate for gdx. I haven't found an appropriate study that has used it. If any investigator...

05 June 2015 8,293 5 View

Does anyone know about silastic tubing for implants in mice?

Hi there, i am looking for some guidelines to using silastic tubing for implanting hormones in mice. I need to provide 50ug of drug released every day. Has anyone worked with them and would be...

05 June 2015 2,360 5 View

Ubiquitin turnover controlled by?

03 April 2015 449 0 View

How can I get around the fact that the H1R GPCR multimer upon lysate preparation gets denatured and aggregates on the SDS PAGE gel?

I am working with histamine receptor 1, a G protein couple receptor (GPCR), and when i prep my lysate for SDS page gel run I heat them up at 95C/3 min. I am getting protein aggregation in my...

02 March 2015 4,230 6 View

Has anyone come across S-myc tag rather than the conventional c-myc protein tag? Can we detect this protein tag using anti-c-myc antibodies or not?

Has anyone come across using S-myc tag rather than the conventional c-myc protein tag? I received a construct that had S-myc and I am not sure if this is the same tag as c-myc. There is no...

01 February 2015 10,018 6 View

Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence?

I am on the lookout for the Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence. Does anyone know where I can find it? Thank you in advance

03 March 2021 3,568 1 View

What solvent can I used for Paal Knorr reaction between 6-amino hexanoic acid and 2.5 hexanedione?

I am try to make the Paal Knorr reaction between 2.5 hexnedione and 6-amino hexanoic acid, my problem is type of solvent to use, because 6-hexaminohexanoic acid is soluble in water but I am not...

02 March 2021 4,443 2 View

Does anyone know HRM channel in a 2 plex QIAGEN Rotor- Gene Q qPCR can be used as a separate channel?

I am going to have 3 different probes in my qPCR work that I am going to do. But I realized that the machine we have in the lab is a Rotor-Gene Q 2plex HRM Platform, saying it has green, yellow,...

01 March 2021 8,544 1 View

Which cell line should we use to perform biological dosimetry experiments?

We are preparing some experiments based on irradiating cells under different conditions in order to evaluate the effects in terms of DNA damage, genetic expression, etc. As our project is...

01 March 2021 3,355 3 View

Is it possible for two human neuronal cell lines to have different gene sequence for the same protein?

I am looking at the ATP1A2 (Sodium/Potassium ATPase alpha subunit 2) in two human neuronal cell lines. Expression levels of this protein seems to be almost equal when detected by one antibody....

01 March 2021 3,607 3 View

What is the exact mechanism of the antimicrobial effect of local anesthetics?

The antimicrobial effect of local anesthetics has been known for more than 50 years, but it still seems to have an unclear mechanism of action. which bacteria? which concentration? etc etc. ....

27 February 2021 4,450 2 View

Runs of nucleotides in Sanger sequencing?

I performed site directed mutagenesis, transformation, and then I sent out plasmids for Sanger sequencing and found out that there is extension of DNA just before the stop codon. I am not sure...

27 February 2021 547 3 View

Calculating volume of DNA required from DNA concentration?

Hi I am a bit confused. They are asking me to find out the volume of DNA required in ul (a total of 30-100 ng for genomic DNA) from the DNA concentration in the nanodrop reading which was 404.8...

26 February 2021 5,029 2 View

Can anyone share his experience regards Smoothing in origin?

I am working on TiO2 composite material and the results of XRD have a lot of small/junk peaks and while I apply a smooth filter in Origin then the other characteristics peaks disappear so anyone...

26 February 2021 8,183 3 View

Has anyone used the Illumina ITS1 primer sets?

Hi everyone, Illumina provides a list of primers to amplify with high taxonomic coverage the ITS1 region for further fungal sequencing, but I cannot find the exact amount necessary of each...

25 February 2021 6,969 3 View