Is it expected to get high perforin with normal degranulation on NK cell along with high cytotoxicity?

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What could be the reason for higher percentage of lymphocytes with lower median fluorescence intensity?

I am staining whole blood with antibodies like CD3, CD56 and NKp30 to assesses the expression of NKp30 on NK cells. I am getting increased percentage of NKp30 on NK cells in one group than in...

09 October 2015 1,311 12 View

Faint spots in Elispot. What is the reason for this?

Please suggest. I am getting faint spots in elispot, although the spots are visible in naked eye but the Elispot reader can't read it. I am using MSIPS4510 plate (Millipore), also performing the...

07 August 2014 2,188 15 View

Does anybody do NK cell degranulation assay after incubating the whole blood with antigens for 24hrs?

As we know degranulation assay of NK cells is to check the NK cell functionality, so is there anyone doing NK degranulation assay after incubating the whole blood with antigens for 24hrs, then in...

07 August 2013 3,211 2 View

Which of the Covid-19 Vaccines would elicit the best immunoprotection and why?

I want to know which of the available Covid-19 Vaccines would elicit the best immunological response and why

02 March 2021 1,388 3 View

New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before?

Question to you and THEM, the New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before? There appears to be a core problem for...

02 March 2021 3,024 2 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

Is there anyone who experienced with cytotoxic effect of Hoescht 33342 dye?

Is Hoechst toxic to cells? In general, it is known as non-toxic. I am working with dsRED MDA-MB-231 cell line. I applied it for my PDMS-based microfluidic platform, for this reason, I incubated...

26 February 2021 9,119 3 View

Unknown debris sheets observed in cell culture flasks?

Hi, We culture neural progenitor cells in T175 culture flasks coated with PLO-Laminin. We have successfully grown these cells with our protocol for months. Recently, we observed large sheets...

25 February 2021 3,443 4 View

Experimental Design: How deal with pseudreplicates with immunological and clinical-chemical paramaeters?

Hello everybody, I am investigating the influence of a toxinon various clinical-chemical and haematological parameters in fish. I have three treatments (control, low dose, high dose) in my...

24 February 2021 1,243 1 View

Can we recognize signs of the "volatility clustering" property of a time series in its time domain plot?

My purpose is to recognize the volatility clustering property without statistical tests such as The Lagrange Multiplier (LM) test.

24 February 2021 4,150 3 View

Why anti-CD20 or other antibodies are not used to label target cells in flow cytometry t-cell cytotoxicity assay?

New to the field of cell therapy. Why fluorescent-labeled antibodies to target cell antigens are not used for determining target cell count by flow cytometry in cytotoxicity assay (eg car-t)? Cell...

21 February 2021 3,278 3 View

How to run repeated measures in mvabund?

I have a dataset of fish species abundances collected from 6 different habitats over the course of 30 years. Fish were collected multiple times per year and environmental variables were recorded...

21 February 2021 3,838 1 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