How can you decide drug quantities given to mice based on the weight of the animal?

09 October 2014 9,125 5 View

What is the best animal choice?

For a pharmacological and another pathway study related to Alzheimer's disease (such as those including building animal models), what is the best animal choice? The mice or the rats? If it is the...

08 September 2014 7,505 6 View

What would be the best animal model to study drug effects on Alzheimer's Disease?

08 September 2014 2,114 4 View

Can anyone provide advice on the study of APOE transgenic cell lines ?

To study Alzheimer's disease , I need to study the involvement of APOE genes in Amyloid Beta production thus, I am searching for suitable cell lines that specifically express these genes (APOE 2,...

08 September 2014 2,438 2 View

Can we extrapolate pharmacological data from mice to rats and vice versa?

08 September 2014 2,005 10 View

Do you have protocols of primary cells cultures of hippocampal and cortical cells respectively (taken from monkey brain)?

See above

07 August 2014 845 1 View

What are the best choices for the cell culture to study Alzheimer's disease?

07 August 2014 1,880 8 View

What are the best choices for the Cell culture to study Alzheimer;s disease ?

What are the est cell lines to use to study AD in cell cultures (In vitro)?

07 August 2014 5,254 2 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

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

Does PHA-P stimulate the proliferation of lymphocytes from mice?

Hello, I will start performing MLR using lymphocytes from mice's spleen and I would like to know the better way for the stimulation. If is using PHA-P or CD3/CD28? I would like to know as well if...

23 February 2021 5,476 4 View

How to culture mouse pheochromocytoma cells (MPC)?

Hi Everyone, Has anyone here worked with MPC cell line? Any tips or tricks? I am just venturing into cell biology and any advice on this topic would be highly appreciated. Thank you so much. Niusha

22 February 2021 3,891 2 View