Ligand/antibody to study contact inhibition of proliferation?

Hi, I am trying to find any protocol, where people have studied/observed contact inhibition of proliferation, upon the addition of any ligand/antibody. Do you know of any such protocol/study? TIA.

07 August 2018 6,173 0 View

Doubling time of Hep3B cells?

04 May 2018 944 3 View

What are the best mammalian cell lines to study insulin signaling?

Hello, I am trying to study insulin signaling by dual luciferase assays. I will have to transfect the cells with my reporter genes, for the same. What are the best mammalian cell lines, with good...

02 March 2018 4,047 7 View

Do HeLa cells have insulin receptors?

Hello all, I am trying to study growth-regulating effects of Insulin in mammalian cells, by dual luciferase assays. I worked on HeLa cells but the results are not reproducible, even when I do the...

01 February 2018 8,857 3 View

Can anyone explain to me about tagged western blotting?

I am curious about the tagged western blotting, where, proteins are probed on a nitrocellulose/PVDF membrane with HIS-tag/GST-tag primary antibody initially, and later with a corresponding...

02 March 2015 1,787 3 View

How can I induce DNA damage using Temozolomide?

Hi all, I am currently studying activation of PARP after inducing DNA damage. The method I follow is: 1) exposing tumor cells (HCT116, HeLa cells) and MEFs (WT and S12) to DNA damaging agent...

02 March 2015 6,510 4 View

How can I minimize the air bubbles during a western blot wet transfer?

Hello everyone, I am right now facing the issue of air bubbles during the western blot wet transfer method. It is so frustrating that some silly air bubbles mess up the whole results. This is what...

02 March 2015 3,893 28 View

What is the BRCA status of the colon cancer cell line HCT116?

I am trying to put together the BRCA and p53 status of various cell lines like HeLa, WT/S12 MEFs, HCC1937, MDAM231, MCF7, HCT116. I was able to get the statuses of every other cell line, but just...

11 December 2014 5,552 4 View

Can anyone help with plotting EC50 using Graphpad Prism: Incomplete sigmoidal curves?

Hello everyone! I am testing the effect of certain compounds on cell proliferation by MTT assays. We usually analyse the data using Excel followed by Graphpad prism in our lab. I sometimes get...

08 September 2014 2,618 5 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 degree of missing data in a particular case/participant results in Expectation-Maximisation no longer working?

I'm dealing with a mediation model and am using the PROCESS module in SPSS. Due to SPSS and PROCESS being limited in the imputation methods - being unable to handle multiple imputation - the other...

02 March 2021 4,362 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

Is SSRN e-Journal Scopus indexed?

I have publication in SSRN. I want to know whether it is Scopus indexed? Does it show impact factor? What is its ISSN No.?

02 March 2021 4,565 3 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

What is the most reliable source to get Impact factor of journals?

Source to get Impact factor of journals

01 March 2021 6,654 2 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

Genome-wide gene identification protocol ?

Is there any book chapter/book, webpage or research article available to understand genome-wide gene identification?

28 February 2021 8,095 1 View

What is the difference between genotype and haplotype data in the ped format?

Hi everybody In the ped format for genotype, alleles of any SNP are represented by two columns (one for each allele, separated by a space). Is a column sufficient for the haplotype to...

27 February 2021 1,965 1 View