Has anyone performed novel object recognition and fear conditioning in the same animals?

When testing memory and learning, did anyone combine these tests in the same set of animals? What could be the dynamics in performing these test? What could be pros/cons for doing this kind of...

01 February 2018 483 0 View

Transport of isolated RNA?

After isolated of total RNA from blood lymphocytes what is the best way of transporting the RNA? After dissolving in DEPT-treated water what is the optimal way? Should the samples be on ice or what?

04 May 2016 6,826 4 View

Connection between expression of 5ht1a and p11 gene upon stress and AD?

04 May 2016 3,312 0 View

How to do behavioral tests?

What is the time schedule for performing the behavioral tests after ICV application of DEX in mice? How to perform FST: in two sessions or in one, when to do sucrose and what is the time table for...

03 April 2016 382 2 View

Any suggestion of a whole cell western blot protocol from rat testis?

Dear, Anyone has/tried some protocol for extraction of whole cell from rat testis for western blot? Which buffer you used, troubleshooting and similar things.

11 December 2015 786 5 View

How doI dissolve DEX-BSA for intracerebroventricular injections?

09 October 2015 4,774 0 View

Noldus EthoVision Xt multiple footshocks setup?

How to setup multiple foot shocks in Noldus EthoVision XT software? I need to adjust three footshocks in 1,58, 2,28 and 2,58 second from the beging of conditioning! Fs last for 2 seconds?

09 October 2015 8,044 0 View

Freezing behavior statistics?

07 August 2015 2,021 4 View

Does DNase treatment affect the concentration and purity of isolated RNA?

Namely, in our lab when we measured concentration of RNA sample after and without DNAse treatment, we got surprising results. RNA concentration of sample after DNAse treatment was 5 fold lower...

11 December 2014 5,813 7 View

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SYBR Green Real Time PCR

07 August 2014 7,368 5 View

What is your perception on using visual analysis or quantitative approaches to evaluate data from single-case research designs (n of 1 trials)?

Results of single-case research designs (i.e., n-of-1 trials) are often evaluated by visually inspecting the time-series graph and computing quantitative indices. A question our research team is...

03 March 2021 687 1 View

How do I increase the yield of my PCR product?

Hello, We would like to increase the yield of our PCR product. We are running a series of PCR reactions that is targeting ~1.1kb sequence. We begin each reaction with ~400pg of template DNA...

02 March 2021 4,029 3 View

Does anyone know HRM channel in a 2 plex QIAGEN Rotor- Gene Q qPCR can be used as a separate channel?

I am going to have 3 different probes in my qPCR work that I am going to do. But I realized that the machine we have in the lab is a Rotor-Gene Q 2plex HRM Platform, saying it has green, yellow,...

01 March 2021 8,544 1 View

How to address this issue in the analysis of Real-Time PCR results?

To dear Researchers, I was analyzing a series of concentration for estimation of Real-Time PCR efficiency. The concentration was 1:10. I used MS-excel to evaluate Slope. The result of slope was -8...

01 March 2021 8,683 4 View

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Does anyone have the experience of using Taq Man probes in the QIAGEN Rotar- Gene qPCR machine?

01 March 2021 5,311 1 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

Genome-wide gene identification protocol ?

Is there any book chapter/book, webpage or research article available to understand genome-wide gene identification?

28 February 2021 8,095 1 View

MiRNA qpcr problem?

Dear All, mirna primer showing some problem in the melting curve? any idea why? As attached is the melting curve. The forward sequence is obtained from miRBase and reverse primer is universal.

28 February 2021 5,008 4 View

Any specific pipeline or parameter to analyse total transcriptomics study of brain tissue samples?

I have two groups of brain samples, control and treated for example. It was total RNA nova seq sequencing. I tried all the available pipeline like: star+rsem+deseq2, Hista+stringtie+cuffdiff,...

27 February 2021 356 6 View

Runs of nucleotides in Sanger sequencing?

I performed site directed mutagenesis, transformation, and then I sent out plasmids for Sanger sequencing and found out that there is extension of DNA just before the stop codon. I am not sure...

27 February 2021 547 3 View