Is there any test to determine the cardiovascular risk of patients with obesity? from the perspective of obesity?

We found tests to determine cardiovascular risk taking into account lipid profile, blood pressure, age, history of diabetes, other laboratories. But when weight is involved, there is a paradox. I...

02 March 2021 6,036 1 View

Why does flow deformation occur at the test line and control line on nitrocellulose membranes (LFIA)?

I use 1% BSA in 10 mM phosphate buffer (pH 7.4) solution when striping my nitrocellulose membranes with antigens and antibodies. However, I always observe deformed flow when my sample or running...

16 February 2021 4,224 3 View

Does anyone knows about a comercial software to record pressure and temperature during reaction in an Autoclave?

Dear all: Currently I am working with polymerization reaction in a reactor. For this, I need to control temperature, pressure, agitation speed etc. For calculation of rate of polymerization, I...

07 February 2021 355 2 View

Do you consider it is important to vindicate Spanish as language, in scientific issues and publication of scientific articles?

03 February 2021 3,756 4 View

How can I set up UV irradiation for crosslinking lab?

Hi, I am using a mix of 2 polymers and want to try and crosslink them. I have a UVA lamp of 365nm and have tried the lab previously at 30cm above. How would you recommend I approach the lab and...

31 January 2021 8,711 3 View

Which air pollution/air quality books do you recommend for working with environmental engineering students?

I am exploring up-to-date books on air pollution and air quality, and I would like to know which books do you recommend for environmental engineering students.

25 January 2021 3,972 7 View

How to simulate Sloshing water using Dynamic mesh in ANSYS Fluent ?

I am trying to model sloshing water in a tank in ANSYS Fluent using Wall motion. BUT it seems that System coupling is not responding to wall motion and it works only with Dynamic mesh.

20 January 2021 2,963 3 View

Do we need to keep looking for the fracture angle after the Puck's failure initiation is reached?

Greetings to everyone, Our team is currently working on the development of a VUMAT code in Abaqus for composite modelling using the Puck's failure theory as damage initiation criteria. Currently...

20 January 2021 6,367 1 View

Are there other models that meet the same purpose?

Both Jakes and Gaussian models are used to characterize the power spectral densities of mobile communication channels.

11 January 2021 759 3 View

Hello, can someone help me doing my research please...?

02 January 2021 4,065 15 View

Can we classify HV and LV lines based on line length?

I have dataset which shows the length of power lines. I need to classify the lines based on the line length. Is there a rule to classify the High voltage (HV) and low voltage (LV) lines based on...

03 March 2021 4,116 4 View

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02 March 2021 3,060 3 View

Issues with Permeabilization during Flow Cytometry?

Hello Everyone. Currently I am working to characterize macrophages in the myocardium after ischemia-reperfusion injury in rats. Due to the low total cell number isolated from rat hearts I can...

01 March 2021 3,867 3 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

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

Is CD44 degraded in lysosome together with hyaluronan after CD44 mediated endocytosis of hyaluronic acid?

Also when RHAMM binds hyaluronic acid, they get internalized, will RHAMM also be degraded? Or both CD44 and RHAMM will be transferred back to the cell membrane? Asking for breast cancer cell line...

01 March 2021 8,169 2 View

Do you need the CMV enhancer before the CMV promotor for a proper function of CMV on the gene that follows?

I'm a student and I have to produce a cell line with a knockin for the NRF2 gene with GFP. I have to put a promotor in front of the GFP because the gene will be too far away from the promotor of...

28 February 2021 7,127 2 View

What could be some reasons why unstimulated monocytes are getting activated?

Im doing PBMC isolation -> CD14+ enrichment using magnetic beads -> stimulation setup. My negative control is just cells in cRPMI but they seem to get activated over and over again.

28 February 2021 7,883 3 View

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28 February 2021 9,936 2 View

Why do my MCFs not form monolayer?

Hello, I am looking for some expertise on culturing MCF7s. I purchased them from ATCC and I have been following all media and culture conditions. Media is EMEM with 10% FBS and 10ug/mL of...

27 February 2021 3,904 2 View