Measuring AGEs, RAGE, CLM, CEL in sperm and testicular tissue?

I am interested in medicinal chemistry field, which books are highly recommended to learn from?

I am at the beginner level in drug design and drug discovery, and I am interested to learn more about this field. Which books are highly recommended to start from and gives me all essential...

02 March 2021 8,437 2 View

Isolates of Hymenoscyphus fraxineus?

Dear Dr. Cai, my name is Simone Prospero and I work in the team of Phytopathology at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research (WSL;...

01 March 2021 1,133 1 View

Which Journals would you advise to submit a Letter which briefly talks about neurosurgical treatment of neuro-oncological patient during Sars-COV-2?

Possibily not an open access journal which does not add any publishing costs once being accepted. Thank you in advance

09 February 2021 717 6 View

ACE2 Blotted as a double band?

Hello, I have recently run a western of Vero cells for ACE2. I detected ACE2 at the correct size, but it presents as a double band. The sample was prepared by lysing cells in 1X Laemmli...

07 February 2021 6,973 3 View

Can I heat my ELISA at 37C?

Hello, I am conducting a sandwich-type ELISA. It is to see if small molecules can interfere with a protein-protein interaction. As this interaction would occur in the human body, may I heat...

31 January 2021 4,271 3 View

Translating two biomarkers to the same scale??

Hello researchers, I was wondering if anyone had experience in the following: I would like to translate two separate continuous biomarkers (A and B), that are mechanistically linked to each...

25 January 2021 2,107 3 View

How to dissolve Scotch tape to collect the Au particles [analogous to the mechanical exfoliation of graphene]?

Hi everyone, I'm a mechanical person and now may need some help from chemistry experts. My question should be as easy as pie for the chemistry person. I prepared some Au particles in nanoscale...

21 January 2021 2,426 3 View

How commonly do you encounter Rummination Syndrome in your GI practice?

Do diaphragmatic breathing and speech therapy actually help? How often did you require multidisciplinary team approach?

17 January 2021 5,998 0 View

Is it correct to include variables as a group and as individual component in multivariable cox or logistic regression?

For example : If I am conducting the effect of metabolic syndrome on short term mortality of disease xy, can I enter "metabolic syndrome" as one variable and its components (diabetes,...

11 January 2021 6,348 2 View

It does not appear logistically possible to vaccinate everyone for COVID. So what's the point?

Public health authorities claim that no one is safe from COVID-19 until every one is safe. This has translated into a goal to vaccinate everyone who can be vaccinated. Logistically, however, it...

06 January 2021 4,269 12 View

Steingrimur Stefansson

Hi Stefan, are you looking at diabetic rats? Do you see AGE fluorescence in testicular tissues?

Stefan S Du Plessis

Hi Steingrimur. We have a rat model of obesity and the animals are actually pre-diabetic (we did not induce diabetis with streptozotocin). At this stage we are just collecting tissue and have not started the analysis. I am still trying to establish which method is best (reliable and accurate). We are thinking of measuring RAGEs via both Immunohistochemistry and Western Blots. Any suggestions?

Dear Erik - thanks so much. This is very helpful.