What thickness need for ITO to use as conductive layer?

I want to do RF sputtering of ITO on glass substrate using magnetron sputtering. what thickness do i need to make it good conductive layer to use it for PSC. Moreover, whats about thickness of...

01 March 2021 395 3 View

Are protein samples in SDS compatible with ELISA?

I have used an AllPrep DNA/RNA/Protein Mini Kit QIAGEN kit to extract RNA and protein from my samples. At the end of the protein purification, I resuspend my protein in 5% SDS. Will these samples...

28 February 2021 7,370 3 View

Special issue on PLS-SEM in Mathematics. Are you interested?

21 February 2021 5,601 3 View

How to calculate the TCID50 when the highest CPE is 50% or less?

I am doing TCID50 to measure progeny virus and some treatments protected the cells in a way that the highest CPE observed is 50% or less. How should I do the titre calculation in that case? Thank you!

16 February 2021 8,768 1 View

Which drug is better to modify blood pressure in awake monkey, if I provide it in the food or drink reward?

I need to modify the blood pressure in a monkey while is awake in the recording chamber, and I am planing on provide a drug for that in the food or water used for reward... any advise? Thank you

08 February 2021 9,900 1 View

Why stop the reaction in ice for the fluorescent probe FDA (fluorescein diacetate)?

Hi, In literature I noticed that who stains haemocytes with FDA for 30 min then stop the reaction in ice while this does not apply for 15 min incubation time (or maybe authors did not write this...

08 February 2021 3,366 3 View

How to make Fast Green FCF from powder?

Hi everyone We need Fast Green to electroporate plasmid into mice embryos, therefore we simply need it to see some color in the liquid we are electroporating so that electroporation is more...

07 February 2021 1,671 2 View

Why do high doses of humic substances inhibit the growth of corn roots? Is there a toxicity effect?

Length, volume, surface area and dry mass of corn roots treated with humic substances increased up to 13 liters per hectare and decreased with higher doses.

02 February 2021 2,190 4 View

Using a nucleosil c18 column, i get no negative peaks in real time and two negative peaks in post run.Software problem?

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02 February 2021 1,969 2 View

Any ideas on fast and easy way to stain mucus on intact cell layer?

Dear RG community, We are looking for a fast and easy way to stain mucus on a cell layer that allows for macroscopic visualization of mucus distrubution. Our epithelium is grown in conventional...

31 January 2021 6,790 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

Looking for advices and tips to improve the staining and the gating strategy in human blood?

Hi, I am staining a human blood with CD19, CD3,CD14 and CD16. My gating strategy in FlowJo goes like this: - First, I gate a general population SSC-A VS FSC-A => Then gate for single cells, =>...

21 February 2021 5,724 4 View

Will SARS-CoV-2 Spike be broken into S1 and S2 by denaturing conditions?

Hello, I am performing a western blot of my SARS-CoV-2 Spike-pseudotyped lentiviral particles. I denature my virus by adding concentrated virus to 2X Laemmli buffer at 1:1, then boiling for...

17 February 2021 4,844 4 View

Macrophages in culture not growing/ dying or detaching . Why ?

Hello, I am an undergraduate student doing my dissertation, where I isolate PBMCs from leucocyte cones in order to plate monocytes and allow for macrophage differentiation. Although the numbers...

09 February 2021 5,334 8 View

Will it be possible to get IC:50 if we target cancer cell line with antibody drug conjugate (ADC) that have 50% less antigen positive cells ?

Is it possible to attain IC50 if my target cells have less than 50% antigen expression ? For example: Cancer cell line XXX is showing 35% of expression of cell surface antigen YYYY, if i...

04 February 2021 2,711 3 View

Is there a reason why my monocyte population had high CD3 expression?

We ran a flow cytometry experiment where Fc blockers were added into the antibody cocktail. Other antibodies added include: 1. anti-CD3-PE-Cy7 2. anti-CD4-APC 3. anti-CD8-AmCyan 4....

10 January 2021 2,806 4 View

Does CD31 indicate cell viability?

Hi, I am wondering if the immunofluorescent staining of CD31 antibodies can both mark endothelial cells and indicating their viability. In other words, if I perform immunofluorescent staining for...

23 December 2020 5,815 4 View

PDX leukemia in immunodeficient mice show regression after a time. Anyone knows what is going on?

I am performing PDX ALL in NSGS mice, but something curious happens: some leukemias develop very well , but after a time the hCD45+ cells show a huge regression while the mCD45+ cells turn back to...

16 December 2020 7,344 2 View

IHC-P staining of the viral infection in the mouse pancreas?

Hi, I'm trying to stain a viral infection of the pancreas in paraffin sections of adult (3 month old) BALB/c mice. Prior to starting my histology analysis, I have titrated the organ to confirm...

10 December 2020 2,198 3 View

Is it possible to grow human monocytes in DMEM?

I need to purify monocytes isolated from human peripheral blood using the plate adhesion methodology. However, I only have DMEM in the laboratory. I did a pilot and the cells did not adhere...

09 December 2020 2,555 3 View