Does anyone know in which regions in the brain is expressed PNN?

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Does anyone have a sequence for the human CD34 promoter?

I'm looking for the human CD34 promoter sequence to engineer into a vector construct. Can anyone recommend a good source for this sequence? Thanks very much, Laura

25 February 2021 8,205 1 View

Quantifying leaking DNA from bacteria - what's the secret?

Hi, all! I need to determine if my treatment causes membrane damage in bacteria (S. aureus and E. cloacae), but I cannot use a fluorescent probe such as PI and similar ones because my compound is...

24 February 2021 2,006 2 View

Is anyone else having a similar situation?

I'm looking for the genetic sequence for the TAR region of HIV. If I put Transactivator Response Region, and HIV, and "genetic sequence: into a browser...is it not unreasonable to expect to be...

10 February 2021 658 5 View

Can a mRNA be degraded but still observe a protein over-expression?

Hello there, I'm currently trying to over-express a gene by transfecting the cells with a pcDNA6 plasmid containing my target gene. When I measure the mRNA for my gene of interest, the levels are...

03 February 2021 4,112 4 View

Are there any solutions for remote eye-tracking?

Since with the pandemic it doesn't look like we are going back to the lab soon, in my lab we were looking for solutions to conduct remote webcam-based eye-tracking. I've been looking at...

31 January 2021 7,315 5 View

Sample Size for Quasi-Experimental Quants using one-tailed t-test?

Hi, sorry I'm stumped. I'm going to do a study on the leadership styles (using the MLQ Form 5X) of minority women administrators in medical schools. How will I calculate the sample size? Thank...

30 January 2021 2,865 4 View

I'm curious whether there is any research available on the use of AI related to diversity&inclusion (efforts)?

I'm looking for studies or conceptual papers on the (potential) uses of AI for enhancing diversity and inclusion within organization. The biases concerning the use of (big) data are known and...

18 January 2021 4,222 4 View

Where can I purchase NanoLC emitter fused silica picoTip?

Hi, I'm working with NanoLC/MS for both Metabolomics and Proteomics. We usually make our nano columns using emitters from NewObjective. Unfortunately New Objective, due to the pandemic, is now...

10 January 2021 1,176 4 View

What can be the reason of having high Cq-values for reference genes?

Hi, Once again I am facing an annoying problem. This time in my barley qPCR, I am trying to detect a virus (BYDV) in plant samples. I get rather high Cq-values for 2 of the 3 reference genes...

06 January 2021 4,685 9 View

Thawing or defrosting methods for frozen soil samples?

I have soil samples that have been frozen for a while and I need to re-acclimate them for a series of analyses that require incubation at 25C. I have been looking for laboratory methods but seem...

04 January 2021 4,862 3 View

Do head direction cells necessarily encode in an allocentric reference frame?

According to the vertebrate literature, I got the impression that head-direction cells are always anchored to an allocentric reference frame. This can easily be tested with freely moving animals....

27 January 2021 3,821 3 View

Does the pre-synaptic neuron location in a cortical map influences the spatial position of its synapses in the dendrite of the downstream neuron?

Are functional maps in the cortex used by the brain to carry out computations or are they just a byproduct of wiring minimization? A key element to answer this question is to know if, when...

26 January 2021 1,118 8 View

BrdU staining issue?

Hi everyone. I bumped into the difficulty that I couldn't get any signals from my brain section in the DG region of hippocampus. However, I have standardized the BrdU protocol in my brain...

13 January 2021 9,449 0 View

What is the most efficient mouse brain weight for RNA extraction for NGS?

I have collected the brains and they are Fresh Frozen into PFC, Mid Brain and Brain Stem. I want to extract the amygdala and hypothalamus.

01 January 2021 7,833 1 View

Why would looking at the expression of mecp2 in the prefrontal cortex in rett syndrome be useful?

I don't believe there's much research in this area in humans. There are mice and primate studies

05 December 2020 4,556 2 View

What are some factors that would result in a small fEPSP?

Hi everyone, I'm consistently having small fEPSP's of approximately -0.01 mv. I've been moving the position of my electrodes and increasing the stimulation intensity but the response doesn't...

03 December 2020 7,125 7 View

What is an appropriate tip diameter size for a stimulating electrode?

I'm setting up an electrophysiology rig examining LTP in the CA1 region of the hippocampus. What is an appropriate tip diameter size for a stimulating electrode to generate fEPSP? Also, I'm...

01 December 2020 5,139 2 View

Which simple task most reliably activates prefrontal cortex?

For equipment testing purposes my research group wants to acquire an fMRI data set with frontal cortex activation, as anterior as possible. What would be the most reliable (yet simple) task to...

24 November 2020 1,132 1 View

Cre-loxp system does not work (lines #017455 and #017320, JAX). Why?

We bought this year two lines (#017455 and #017320) to get specific expression of channelrhodopsin2 (ChETA, in this case) in parvalbumin-positive (PV) interneurons. We hoped that crossing a mouse...

16 November 2020 8,701 1 View

How to check spread of AAV2 virus that doesn't express fluorophores?

Hi, I am injecting AAV2-Retro virus (AAV2-retro-EF1a-DIO-FLPo-WPRE-hGHpA from Addgene) that carries cre-dependent flp recombinase, in the mouse dorsal hippocampus and I need to verify that the...

08 November 2020 9,559 3 View