Which sequence could induce higher immunogenicity, S polypeptide or only S1? and how to isolate S1 from a vector containing the whole seq. of S?

I have a clone of DNA sequence encoding the full spike protein (S1+S2)

01 January 2021 7,821 1 View

Why RNA is totally degraded?

18 October 2020 5,252 22 View

How to prepare 37% Formaldehyde from paraformaldehyde?

I want to prepare 37% formaldehyde for denatured formaldehyde agarose gel preparation (for RNA) How can I prepare 37% formaldehyde? And how long this solution would be stable?

11 October 2020 914 4 View

What is the concentration of saturated solution of bromophenol blue?

I want to know the concentration of a home-made saturated aqueous solution of Bromophenol blue. How could I know when I add unknown number of grams of the dye?

05 October 2020 3,423 3 View

What is a good pretext task for self supervised lane detection in autonomous driving?

I have been looking into self-supervised methods in computer vision. For example Digging Into Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation which looks at three consecutive frames of video, tasks a...

23 July 2020 8,232 1 View

What are some ways (aside from: a. mouse weight b. girth) to measure tumor growth in mice?

We have mice injected w/ specific cancer cell lines. The cancer cell lines failed to pick up the luciferase bioluminescent tag. We have a rubric of categories to measure the mice, but I was...

25 March 2020 5,991 2 View

Can anyone help me to find the psychometric characteristics for the JCQ VERSION 2 developed by Karasek??

I am using Job demands & control model in my thesis, and I want to use JCQ 2 questionnaire, but i cant find the psychometric characteristics

08 February 2020 2,240 3 View

Can we use a systemic NOAEL of a chemical product in a oral-administration effects study ?

Good evening, I have a already esablished Overall Systemic NOAEL (mg/Kg bw/day) for a pesticide wich i'll be studing the effect by oral administration on rats, can i use directly this dose in my...

08 November 2019 8,265 1 View

References about GA convergence or non-convergence?

I am looking for references to show that GA solutions do not necessarily converge to optimal solution to defend the use of an integer program, exact solution. I want to criticize heuristic and...

05 August 2019 900 5 View

In Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), what to do if you are comparing with respect to outputs only?

Can we do that? And if yes, assuming that we have negative and positive output features, how to deal with them? By negative and positive features I do not mean value, but a feature like happy and...

22 January 2019 2,068 3 View

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

IHC on mouse liver hepatocytes?

Can anyone help me choose primary antibodies for mouse liver hepatocytes and also in conjunction Cd8 cells. Also Cd3 cells. I want to look at hepatocytes and adjacent immune cells in mice with...

01 March 2021 6,953 1 View

How to avoid ulcers in s.c. injected tumors ?

Recently, we have injected s.c. B16F10 tumor cells in BL/6 mice. At around 12-15th day some animals showed ulcerations in tumors , with a big hole in the middle (it looks like a volcano). We have...

01 March 2021 9,938 3 View

Interested to stain mice tissue with WGA 488 conjugate, anybody has a protocol to recommend?

Interested to stain mice brain tissue with WGA 488 conjugate, appreciate if anyone willing to offer me some guidance or suggestions! Thank you!

28 February 2021 3,951 2 View

Looking for genomic DNA extraction kits from mouse tissue (centrifuge-based, not spin-column)?

Hello. I am looking to extract genomic DNA from mouse brain and lungs and I need a kit that is not spin-column based because I need to scale up the solution amounts for 400mg tissue (most cap at...

25 February 2021 155 2 View

What are the pros and cons for mice versus rats?

Hi Everyone, I am designing a pilot study using rodents to assess the effects of simulated space environments (radiation + altered gravity) on microbiome and immune system. I have limited...

24 February 2021 1,825 3 View

Experimental Design: How deal with pseudreplicates with immunological and clinical-chemical paramaeters?

Hello everybody, I am investigating the influence of a toxinon various clinical-chemical and haematological parameters in fish. I have three treatments (control, low dose, high dose) in my...

24 February 2021 1,243 1 View

Is it harmful to breed for Cre Homozygosity initially?

Hello, I am currently using a Cas9 knock in system that will be expressed in the liver. To do so STOP codon fl/fl Cas9 KI mice were bred with Albumin-Cre mice to generate heterozgous pups, that...

24 February 2021 5,759 3 View

How to empty large intestine in mice ?

Hi all I am working on colon-targeted drug delivery for which I kept mice fasting for 6h using fasting grills during scotophase (dark period). I observed liquid fecal content in the cecum and...

23 February 2021 7,701 2 View

Does PHA-P stimulate the proliferation of lymphocytes from mice?

Hello, I will start performing MLR using lymphocytes from mice's spleen and I would like to know the better way for the stimulation. If is using PHA-P or CD3/CD28? I would like to know as well if...

23 February 2021 5,476 4 View