is it possible for alginate to have antimicrobial property?
Yes it shows some sort of antimicrobial activity.
Hello, I have run into an issue that has sparkled a debate at work: is the LLOQ/ULOQ impacted by injection volume under the following circumstances: 1) Same dilution factor of all samples 2)...
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Can the second-language version, strictly speaking, be considered a translation of the first-language version or is it merely a somewhat looser interpretation? How do such authors approach the...
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I am doing voltage-clamp experiments in CA1 pyramidal cells (mEPSCs; AMPA-NMDA ratio; LTP; etc) from acute hippocampal slices in mice. I want to make sure I am only recording from excitatory...
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Hello RG community, currently I am trying to reach these goals on silicon surfaces for a microfludic project. I have used silanes like APTES in the past in order to get my si-surface hydrophobic...
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Hello All, I am not even sure if this is possible, but I have used this dataset for several publication -albeit with different constructs-and have not seen such low t-values. For example, I have a...
10 March 2020 1,164 3 View
Hello All, I have been asked to supply the Mean and Standard Deviation for my latent constructs. Is there a straightforward way of doing it in SPSS? I am actually modeling in SmartPLS, but not...
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We have isolated a red pigment producing bacteria. We harvested the crude pigment by removing the cells by centrifugation. We tried to find the absorption maxima (lambda max) of the pigment using...
19 January 2020 1,331 2 View
Hello All, I have been able to calculate all the interaction effects for a study involving the Big Five. One of the interaction effects I would like to graph (among others) is the relationship...
30 December 2019 6,640 3 View
I am designing a primer for a gBlock and I don't want to the poly-histag. So naturally I am adding a stop codon in my primer, but then I need a new RBS site. So my question is can I have a stop...
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Hello community, we currently working on an automatic algorithm for erytrocyte detection in stereo-microscopy images for cell counting. Additionally we want to determine the percentile amount of...
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Good afternoon, I recently used OmniLog from BIOLOG for my experimentations : I tested the metabolism of different strains on 2 types of plates. I have 16 strains of 3 different groups...
02 March 2021 3,584 1 View
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
Warm greetings My name is Ayichew S. and I am doing my Ph.D. in Medical Microbiology (on Human papillomavirus). At this stage, I have almost completed a clinical sample Cervical swabs)...
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Warm greetings! My name is Ayichew S. and I am doing my Ph.D. in Medical Microbiology focusing on Human papillomavirus). At this stage, I have almost completed a clinical sample (Cervical swabs)...
25 February 2021 3,612 3 View
Hello everyone, For part of my PhD project, I'm hoping to grow some lactobacillus species in the lab so that I can create standard curves for a qPCR quantification of a faecal sample. However, I...
24 February 2021 3,157 6 View
Hello, I fit a classical dose response curve Y=Bottom + (Top-Bottom)/(1+10^((LogEC-X)*HillSlope)) to my data (not related to inhibitors etc). The model I use is purely qualitative but it fits...
23 February 2021 8,155 5 View
I am aware of a study that has compared the use of citrated and defibrinated sheep's blood in microbiological media (Hair Sheep Blood, Citrated or Defibrinated, Fulfills All Req... ), but can...
10 February 2021 5,927 1 View
A patient was given 300 mg Theophylline taken twice a day for the treatment of her bronchial asthma and has a positive clinical response. She has been compliant in taking her medication however,...
09 February 2021 3,489 3 View
I will be using the lowered pH broth for MIC test of some disinfectants, and I do not want the acid to have any interfernece with MIC results.
03 February 2021 6,959 4 View
Due to their ubiquitous nature, there is a tendency of the presence of microbes in a given mineral(s). For instance, if microorganisms that love the of pH less than 6 in the pH value, is isolated...
03 February 2021 4,630 10 View