Can anyone provide the complete guidelines for drug development for topical formulations for wound healing?

We have evaluated the wound healing potentials of different compounds at particular concentrations in laboratory animals. Now, we want to move in the direction of drug development for some topical...

31 December 2019 7,095 1 View

How to determine the antioxidant effect of our nanoparticles by DPPH method?

We want to determine the antioxidant effects of our prepared formulation of nanoparticles by DPPH method. Our formulation is having some col and different excipients/vehicles. Please also tell how...

09 October 2019 9,228 2 View

What is the difference / significance between western blot and IHC for assessing same growth factor/other marker (e.g. TGF-beta1, alpha-SMA, VEGF)?

I am interested in assessing the expression of some growth factor (e.g. TGF-beta 1) or other marker (e.g. PCNA, CD31). I want to know the difference in term of significance for assessing the same...

02 March 2018 6,697 3 View

Can anyone provide me the reference of Wilson's formula for % wound contraction?

I want to measure the % wound contraction from the data of wound area by using Wilson's formula. Can anyone provide me the formula and reference for this formula?

05 June 2016 6,270 0 View

Can anyone suggest or provide PDF file of books on dose selection of herbal drugs and their formulation development?

I want to mix two and more than 2 herbal drugs for the preparation of herbal formulation. Can anyone suggest or provide me the PDF file of books on herbal dose selection, their standardization in...

04 May 2016 4,262 0 View

Can anyone suggest or provide PDF file of books on wound healing?

04 May 2016 6,808 1 View

Is DMSO safer for wounds?

I want to disolve drugs in DMSO and want to apply them topically on wounds, but some researchers have pointed me that it is cytotoxic even at lower concentration i.e. 10% or more. Can anyone...

03 April 2016 1,196 8 View

Does DMSO has adverse effect on topical application on wound or healing tissue?

I am using DMSO as a vehicle for dissolving the drug for the the topical application on wounds. Dose anyone have observed the adverse effect of DMSO on wound healing or other side effects?. What...

03 April 2016 4,096 5 View

Can we use dried/lypholozed methanolic extracts of plants for feeding to animals?

I have prepared some plant extracts in different solvents and among them methanolic extracts are showing best in-vitro results for antioxidant potentials. Now, I want to feed or administer these...

01 February 2016 9,794 4 View

Has anyone used antibodies from Genetex company?

I want to purchase Anti CD31 antibody for rat from Genetex for IHC-P. I want to know the performance of antibodies of this company. If anyone has tested, please give the suggestions.

09 October 2015 3,713 1 View

Buffer to disrupt platelet alpha granules for PF4 quantification?

Hello! I want to quantify by ELISA the secreted (from platelets poor plasma) and the non-secreted (from platelet lysate) PF4 before and after TRAP stimulation. I will use the ELISA from R&D...

03 March 2021 1,499 2 View

Buffer Exchange using column packed with sephadex G-25 effect on protein concentration?

Hello, If i am doing a buffer exchange for an antibody of 1mg/mL, does the elution lose protein in the process of buffer exchange? For example, if i flow through 500 uL of 1mg/mL sample, and...

03 March 2021 6,299 3 View

How optimize the Size Exclusion Chromatography?

Hello! I'll do a size exclusion chromatography, but I only have an open column, and I'll perform the peptide extraction from yeast, using buffer lysis (sodium phosphate 50 mM/NaCl 30 mM/DNAse and...

01 March 2021 2,215 2 View

Why are my bands weird in this Agarose gel?

Can someone please give me some possible things that could go wrong? Here is my recipe: 0.5g Agarose 50 mL of TAE 1x 1 uL ethyl bromide. Gel was run at 100V for 1 hour. The buffer used is also TAE.

01 March 2021 9,952 3 View

What do I do with DLS peaks that are from the buffer?

I'm looking at the aggregation of my protein sample using DLS. Unfortunately, my buffer (20mM HEPES) also results in a set of peaks. These are at approximately 1 and 1000 d.nm. The lowest peak...

01 March 2021 9,015 2 View

What is the most suitable resuspension buffer for TCA/acetone precipitated protein?

I need to extract protein from fermented carbon sources for Bradford assay. Most researchers experiencing insolubility of pellet in resuspension buffer. Please assist me to select most suitable...

26 February 2021 7,129 3 View

What urea buffer can i use for biotagged protein extraction from streptavidin beads?

Hi all, I have been doing research on biotagged LDB1 proteins in Mel cells. I purify the proteins using M280 streptavidin beads. The yield is very low so I've been trying to optimize it by...

24 February 2021 5,749 3 View

Cloudy/high background western blot - can anyone help me?

Hi everyone! I try to detect VDR protein (~48 kDa) using Western Blot. After SDS-PAGE using 10% MP TGX Stain-Free Gel from BioRad I transferred the protein onto an metOH activated PVDF membrane...

23 February 2021 6,266 3 View

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22 February 2021 9,932 11 View

I can detect my protein but the encoding DNA sequence has stop codons within. Should I ignore the stop codons?

I constructed a synthetic DNA library (scFv, VH-VL orientation) with a 3' reporter and 8x histag. I cloned and expressed this gene following which I performed an ELISA. The ELISA results suggested...

19 February 2021 7,006 5 View