The PC12 cell line characteristics?

Hello dear scientists, Does the undifferentiated PC12 cell line in terms of chromosome characteristics, proliferation, and drug reactions have the characteristics of cancer cells? Where is it...

21 February 2021 8,945 3 View

Is there any general protocol for immunohistology staining?

I have some fixed slides of tissue and need to do some staining, but I am not sure where to start. There are many protocols online. Any suggestions?

17 February 2021 3,062 4 View

Is it possible to report hydrodynamic loads on different parts of an ocean vehicle while 6DOF motion analysis in Ansys Fluent is running?

It seems a 6dof UDF containing vehicle characteristics such as mass and moments of inertia can be used for specifying a boundary as reprentative of ocean vehicle. It is required to have...

03 February 2021 7,726 3 View

How can i figure out whether nanoparticles in my synthesis crosslinked or not?

i prepare protein nanoparticles. in one of my synthesis i use trifle amount of crosslinker and the nanoparticles stick in the bottom of plate. how can i understand that nanoparticles become...

03 December 2020 559 8 View

How to examine the substitution of ligands bound to protein during the MD simulation?

I have simulated a complex ( A protein docked with two ligands), and the ligands are bind to two different protein sites. Still, from the start of the simulation, ligands are positioned in other...

27 November 2020 7,848 4 View

How to change the atom numbers of a residue in a pdb file?

I am trying to dock 2 proteins in HADDOCK server, but it repeatedly shows the following Error for the second pdb file: " Error in PDB file. Your PDB contains multiple residues with number 1 in...

25 November 2020 4,753 1 View

Is it possible that formazan Crystal formation took more than four hours ?

Hello dear scientists: When I treated the Pc12 cell line with H2O2, after 2h the cells seemed to be dead. I didn't observe crystals, so I didn't add DMSO and left it with mtt in the...

20 October 2020 1,106 3 View

Can anyone please provide information in regards to the utilization of the exoskeleton as a perturbative tool for gait/balance therapy?

There exists a considerable body of literature on the application of exoskeleton as an assistive tool in the area of gait or balance therapy. I am interested in finding out more about the...

06 October 2020 9,317 3 View

How can i detecte the fluorescence and non-fluorescence complex?

hello kind regards I study the structure and activity of the digestive enzymes. The enzyme I studied contains 5 amino acids tryptophan. In one of the studies, I study the effects of a food dye on...

04 October 2020 8,563 3 View

How to propagate the EMC Virus in L929 cell line?

04 October 2020 6,705 2 View

Problem with shRNA transfection. Why are only two plates getting contaminated instead of all?

I transfected my LNCaP-WT cells with 3 shRNA plus their NTC two weeks ago and split two puromycin selected cell plates on Friday last week(Feb 26). I checked for GFP in the cells, and they all...

28 February 2021 4,949 3 View

Has anyone had luck using cell lines other than HEK 293 (such as COS1) to package lentivirus?

I am looking to package lentivirus in endothelial cells but I am opposed to using 293 cells due to personal ethics regarding the source. I have done some reading and saw that COS1, COS7, & CHO...

25 February 2021 3,030 1 View

Is there a way in which microglia can be extracted from mice without killing them ?

I'm aiming to use an adoptive cell transfer approach, with microglia in mice with ALS. So far all the protocols I have seen, require sacrificing the mouse. I'd like to re-infuse the microglia back...

11 February 2021 9,509 1 View

What recipe of homemade lenti-virus concentrator do you use?

My lab is using a lenti-X concentrator. And we are looking for a homemade recipe. I have tried this recipe....

08 February 2021 5,965 1 View

SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Western Bands?

Hello, I am western blotting SARS-CoV-2 spike protein from lentiviral using an antibody against S1. To prepare samples, I mixed concentrated lentivirus 1:1 with 2X Laemmli buffer and boiled...

07 February 2021 3,643 4 View

Choise of cell line for neurobiology?

I am working with myelin-related proteins and interested to do cell experiments with my target protein in cells. I have created lentiviruses for my proteins, and mutants and also CRISPR set-up for...

02 February 2021 8,083 1 View

Why is my GOI not expressing after lentiviral transduction despite RNA increase and protein is detected in transfection?

Hi, I'm trying to create a stable overexpression line with EF1a-FlagGOI-IRES-GFP using lentivirus packaged with pxPAX2 and pM2G. After transduction of 293T with 8ug/ml polybrene, I was able to...

29 January 2021 1,878 4 View

How to analyze dendritic spines from tissue (Prelimbic cortex)?

Hi there, I am trying to measure dendritic spines from mouse fixed tissue, specifically, I am looking at the prefrontal cortex. I injected the PrL with a lentivirus to knock-down my protein of...

27 January 2021 9,251 2 View

Can I check GFP transfection in 293T cells by flow cytometry?

I would like to troubleshoot the transfection stage of my lentiviral transduction protocol. In short, I have 4 lentiviral plasmids, one of which encodes GFP. I tried transfecting the HEK293T...

24 January 2021 2,341 3 View

Strategies for short hairpin RNA interference cassettes?

In your experience, how much does the distance between the U6 promoter and the annealed -short hairpin - oligonucleotides affect the RNAi cassette expression? How to clone a shRNA sequence...

16 January 2021 9,418 2 View