Test to get statistical significant difference with unequal sample sizes?

Hi all, I am not really good at stats and I have a question to ask; I had two study groups of mice, one treatment and one non-treatment, with 6 mice in each group. I used student's t-test to...

06 July 2018 2,511 4 View

Insulin receptor in mouse cell lines?

Hi all, Does anyone has any experience successfully detecting protein expression for insulin receptor (IR) and phospho-IR (p-IR) in mouse cell lines by Western blotting? I have tried using 3T3-L1...

04 May 2018 7,300 1 View

What kind of statistical test to use?

I have two groups of mice (n= 6 per group), treatment and control. I am measuring tumour size of these mice every day for 3 weeks. The size will be averaged in each group and I am plotting it over...

11 December 2017 377 4 View

How to do Western blotting with mouse tails?

Hi all I am interested in studying on-target effect of a drug a using mouse tail tissues by Western blotting. I cannot find a published literature describing how to homogenise mouse tails...

09 October 2017 8,551 3 View

Mouse cell lines that express IGF-1R?

08 September 2016 9,529 0 View

Why band in Western blot appears bit lower than expected?

Hi all I used NP40 lysis buffer for HeLa cells and HEK293T cells and used the whole cell lysates to do Western blot. The main purpose was to determine what cell line express endogenous IGF-1R...

08 September 2016 3,683 5 View

How to detect IGF-1R phosphorylation by western blot?

Hi all I am having trouble with detecting phospho-IGF-1R by Western blot. I am trying to detect both the total IGF-1R beta and phosphorylate IGF-1R in MCF-7 and HEK293 by IP and Western blot. I...

07 August 2016 9,495 7 View

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

IHC on mouse liver hepatocytes?

Can anyone help me choose primary antibodies for mouse liver hepatocytes and also in conjunction Cd8 cells. Also Cd3 cells. I want to look at hepatocytes and adjacent immune cells in mice with...

01 March 2021 6,953 1 View

How to avoid ulcers in s.c. injected tumors ?

Recently, we have injected s.c. B16F10 tumor cells in BL/6 mice. At around 12-15th day some animals showed ulcerations in tumors , with a big hole in the middle (it looks like a volcano). We have...

01 March 2021 9,938 3 View

Interested to stain mice tissue with WGA 488 conjugate, anybody has a protocol to recommend?

Interested to stain mice brain tissue with WGA 488 conjugate, appreciate if anyone willing to offer me some guidance or suggestions! Thank you!

28 February 2021 3,951 2 View

What is the ideal efficiency for a qPCR?

hello everyone, I need to do standard curves for my qPCR, what is the ideal efficiency range? I tried a primer (Mglu2 receptor) that gave an efficiency of 90.2%. Is it accepted?

28 February 2021 1,254 3 View

Why is the efficiency of viral mRNA electroporation in PBMC low?

Hello, I have been struggling with the electroporation of PBMC with HIV-I mRNA. Although the quality of the RNA generated is good, and the handling of the cells in meticulous, the frequency of...

27 February 2021 9,233 3 View

Looking for genomic DNA extraction kits from mouse tissue (centrifuge-based, not spin-column)?

Hello. I am looking to extract genomic DNA from mouse brain and lungs and I need a kit that is not spin-column based because I need to scale up the solution amounts for 400mg tissue (most cap at...

25 February 2021 155 2 View

What are the pros and cons for mice versus rats?

Hi Everyone, I am designing a pilot study using rodents to assess the effects of simulated space environments (radiation + altered gravity) on microbiome and immune system. I have limited...

24 February 2021 1,825 3 View

Is it harmful to breed for Cre Homozygosity initially?

Hello, I am currently using a Cas9 knock in system that will be expressed in the liver. To do so STOP codon fl/fl Cas9 KI mice were bred with Albumin-Cre mice to generate heterozgous pups, that...

24 February 2021 5,759 3 View

How to empty large intestine in mice ?

Hi all I am working on colon-targeted drug delivery for which I kept mice fasting for 6h using fasting grills during scotophase (dark period). I observed liquid fecal content in the cecum and...

23 February 2021 7,701 2 View