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

Binary Logistic Generalized Linear Mixed model in SPSS. Is it doable?

I want to analyses the proportion of swimming sperm of three species of fish in two salinities. To analyse the proportion of swimming sperm in a Generalized Linear Model, I would use a Binary...

03 March 2021 2,297 3 View

Looking for Materials with high thermal expansion coefficient and high temperature resistance?

03 March 2021 8,272 1 View

Guidelines for survey (question type) analysis?

Hi. Please tell me what guidelines should i need to follow for questionaries' type research work in India. It is not hospital based work, we are conduction basic institutional based qualitative...

03 March 2021 2,037 3 View

What are the values needed for gabor filter's parameter for cifar10 data?

Hi, I implemented a code to gabor filter cifar10 data but the images after being filtered and stacked are not clear like the original images. I think the problem is in the way I am using the...

03 March 2021 6,317 1 View

Can we block unwanted images during the x-ray prediction?

i am try to classify the x-ray images. During classification , can i block unwanted images (except x-ray image).

03 March 2021 7,100 1 View

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03 March 2021 5,360 2 View

What techniques can I use to determine the miscibility of polymer blends?

The term miscibility refers to the single-phase state in thermodynamics. I do not mean the compatibility of different components. To determine the miscibility I know several techniques such as...

03 March 2021 4,107 4 View

Sample dilution for quantitative analysis using ELISA?

If the detection range is in ng/ml but the reference range is in ug/ml for a molecule or protein in serum or plasma .how to dilute and what is the initial volume to be taken for quantitative analysis

02 March 2021 7,670 3 View

The procedure compute?

02 March 2021 5,204 3 View

What to do with absence of fluorescence label in Fucci2a mouse-derived fibroblast culture?

Dear all, I have harvested fibroblast cells from R26p-Fucci2 mouse embryos (mouse line as described in this paper: https://dev.biologists.org/content/140/1/237) and cultured them on plastic,...

17 February 2021 3,368 2 View

How to reduce debris with neuron isolation?

Hi there, I'm isolating neurons from PND1 guinea pigs and have noticed a bit of debris in the early days (this is day 4 plated) and a lot of variability between plates. Current protocol is...

14 February 2021 3,692 4 View

(western blot) can methanol damage my antibody signal?

I accidentally rinsed with methanol after adding my primary antibody to my membrane. I noticed after ~10 seconds and immediately replaced it with PBST (3x15 min washes). Will my antibody signal be...

12 February 2021 5,824 3 View

How to improve NHBE adhesion after subculture?

I'm trying to subculture NHBE cells from Lonza, however, the cells seem to not adhere to the new flasks after detachment. I've followed Lonza detachment protocol (2 mL/25 cm2 of Trypsin 0.05% and...

10 February 2021 196 1 View

Background and spots in Western Blot membrane?

Do you know why my membrane looks like this? I did this western for Anti-hnRNP D/AUF1 antibody ab50692, as primary antibody in 1:1000 overnight at 4c and Anti-rabbit IgG HRP linked antibody...

07 February 2021 5,591 4 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

How do I keep my prefixed (PFA) frozen tissue sections from lifting off the slide?

I'm trying to stain mouse lung tissue IHC-IF I fix in 4% PFA overnight immediately upon harvesting tissues Then dehydrate/cryoprotect in sucrose gradients 15% to 30% Then freeze in OCT media...

06 February 2021 2,336 3 View

Can i re-incubate a WB membrane with a higher solution of the previously used 1ry ab?

I've incubated my western-blot membrane with both primary and secondary antibodies and i just realized at the end that i've used a lower concentration of my primary antibody for my loading control...

27 January 2021 1,034 3 View

MS/MS protein analysis?

Hi Everyone: I want to quantify the relative amount of a protein in 2 samples. I will first digest the sample with trypsin, and subject the resulting peptides to LC-MS/MS analysis. I will then...

25 January 2021 8,333 3 View

Ac16 cardiomyocytes cell line culturing ?

I have faced a problem with culturing Ac16 cardiomyocytes cell line. Day 0 I plated 200,000 cells/2ml (well) in 6 wells plate in FGM. Day 3 I put my cells on Low serum medium. When I changed...

24 January 2021 1,456 2 View