Does re-stimulation of T cells with PMA and Ionomycine before staining for intracellular cytokines for flow cytometry affect reliability of the assay?

I understand that to be able to measure intracellular cytokines there is a need to restimulate with PMA and Ionomycin but I don't understand how the results will be reliable after that. PMA and...

18 January 2021 7,240 7 View

In meta-analysis of binary outcomes, what should we do when the occurrence of outcome is zero in both groups?

In conducting meta-analysis of binary outcomes (in RCTs), in case the risk ratio has not been reported, what should we do with the studies that the number of outcomes occurrence is zero in both...

09 January 2021 2,802 5 View

How to calculate ratio of means and ratio of geometric means?

In conducting a meta-analysis, sometimes, some studies have reported geometric mean, while others have reported arithmetic mean. One solution for pooling these studies is calculating the ratio of...

11 December 2020 4,663 3 View

Is (Are) there any valid corpus containing geographical events queries?

Hi all, I'm currently looking for a question corpus to have a plausible number of spatial events queries. I found MS MARCO dataset in which I could extract a reasonable number of geographical...

08 December 2020 7,844 2 View

How To Find Electrical Nanodipole and Magnetic Loop Dimensions At Optical Wavelength?

I would be grateful if you could suggest a paper or book which provides an equation to determine the dimensions (length) of an electrical nanodipole and magnetic loop antenna at desired optical...

17 October 2020 2,421 4 View

What effect do epidemics have on cerebral physiology?

How trauma and fear of infection can affect brain functions and structures?

10 October 2020 6,642 1 View

Do I have to assume sphericity or not when conducting two way repeated measures ANOVA in graphpad prism 8?

I am analyzing data obtained from a crossover study conducted on same animals evaluating the effect of two different anesthetic drugs on heart rate, respiratory rate, pulse oximetry, rectal...

28 September 2020 6,408 4 View

Can anyone advise me in selecting a good pair of universal primer/primers for identification of lactic acid bacteria (probiotics)?

when I blast the existed primers specially 16s rDNAs , I cant get good results.

21 September 2020 1,584 4 View

Could anyone help me searching for protocols in fiber analyses ?

Hello, I am looking for protcoles to evaluate the following components: TDF : total dietary fiber, SDF : soluble dietary fiber, IDF : insoluble dietary fiber et TDN : total digestive nutrients.

06 September 2020 371 2 View

How to interpret arima model with regressors in r?

Hi there; I need to produce such an equation for a time series using arima model: y(t) = y(t-1) + a*x(t) + b*x(t-1) I know if I use for example arima (1,0,0) with x as the exogenous...

07 August 2020 7,438 6 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

When is it unnecessary to change organisational culture?

As a former management practitioner, I recall a generally accepted view that changing organisational culture is difficult, so you should only attempt it if the organisational change that you are...

27 February 2021 2,595 8 View

I want to performe MALDI-TOF MS for bacterial identification, I would appreciate it if anyone can tell me the matrix solution preparation protocol ?

based on what I've studied on multiple papers, for peptide and protein identification Alpha-cyano-4-hydroxycinnamic acid (CHCA) is an appropriate matrix to use, I also know that the CHCA powder...

26 February 2021 6,799 3 View