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

How can I quantify the color of a solution?

I know colorimetry has been the standard way by way of measuring the concentration of a particular compound (solute) in a colored solution (solvent or measure quantities of a particular compound...

08 February 2021 2,673 1 View

Can someone explain why my A260/A280 ratio is lower than 1?

We are conducting a measurement of Ribonucleic acid from baker's yeast (S. cerevisiae) (Sigma-Aldrich R6750) concentration using Eon Biotek Microplate reader. We dilute the RNA in various...

24 January 2021 9,830 3 View

Should I normalise data when measuring fluorescence intensity ?

I'm measuring fluorescence intensity of the product in an enzyme reaction in 37 celsius degree. I set a kinetic measurement in 1 hour. The fluorescence intensity of the BLANK ( contains only...

03 January 2021 5,554 5 View

.In my results the slope of curves got from Microplate reader is seems less (less than 1) and negetive some times. What is the reason for that?

In my research I'm enumeraring the florescence intensity (FI) Vs E-coli concentration in river water. I measure FI by Tecan I control 200 pro and E-coli by Membrane filtration.

03 January 2021 2,991 3 View

Is it better to normalize Nile red absorbance to Bradford assay or to cell number?

I stained the fat droplet inside the cell using Nile red and read the absorbance by a microplate reader. Which better to do, normalize the Nile red absorbance to Bradford assay or to cell...

12 December 2020 8,036 2 View

Assay with absorbance/fluorescence readout?

I'm setting up a liquid handling robot and need a simple assay to test it. Ideally I would like to mix 3-4 reagents and have a absorbance/fluorescence readout on a plate reader. It's also possible...

11 November 2020 7,645 3 View

Should absorbance be between 0 and 1 for ELISA?

Hello, I am running a sandwich-type ELISA for which the readout is absorbance at 450nm. The ELISA measures protein binding which I am screening for compounds to inhibit. The 570nm...

05 October 2020 9,813 6 View

Can I use a single gain adjustment when comparing multiple plates for fluorescence reading?

We are using the resazurin dye assay, specifically its fluorescence assay, to measure the growth of our bacteria using a BMG Labtehc Fluostar microplate reader. We have so many samples that it...

05 October 2020 6,714 2 View

Does anyone use microplate reader to detech GFP fluorescence in 96well plate?

I transfected Hela cells with GFP-tagged protein in corning-3603 black clear bottom 96-well plate and tried to use biotek cy3 microplate reader to detect GFP flurorescence intensity with...

16 September 2020 9,774 7 View

What opinions do you have on plate readers you've used?

Hello everyone, Our lab is currently looking to purchase a plate reader and I was interested in seeing what opinions people have about some that they have used. Some of the other labs on...

07 September 2020 2,736 3 View