Testosterone or DHT deficient mice or conditional knockout available?

Hi there I've a congenic strain of mice that exhibits a phenotype dependent on testis (lost following orchiectomy) and was wondering if i can assess the contribution of Testosterone or DHT using a...

09 October 2018 2,379 2 View

Looking for some help converting genomic coordinates to genes?

Hi there I've a total of 8000 list of genomic coordinates from mouse that I want to convert to gene names, is there a software out there that can do it quickly rather than I doing them manually...

06 July 2016 3,880 6 View

How to collate sequence data from different databases in excel ?

Hi there I am analyzing SNPs from two different datasets that once collated will provide a complete picture of haplotype blocks. The issue I am facing here is there are SNPs that are found in both...

06 July 2016 8,081 1 View

Mouse SNP query: duplication of strain data?

06 July 2016 3,973 1 View

How much Retro-orbital blood can we safely withdraw from mice?

Hi, i am planning to measure some cytokines in mouse serum at different time points in my model and was wondering if anyone has done these retro-orbital blood collection and the amount that one...

08 September 2015 7,685 3 View

What is the dihydrotestosterone dosage in mice for oral administration?

Hi there, i am looking for the appropriate dosage of DHT in C57BL/6 mice that can be given orally to compensate for gdx. I haven't found an appropriate study that has used it. If any investigator...

05 June 2015 8,293 5 View

Does anyone know about silastic tubing for implants in mice?

Hi there, i am looking for some guidelines to using silastic tubing for implanting hormones in mice. I need to provide 50ug of drug released every day. Has anyone worked with them and would be...

05 June 2015 2,360 5 View

How can I get around the fact that the H1R GPCR multimer upon lysate preparation gets denatured and aggregates on the SDS PAGE gel?

I am working with histamine receptor 1, a G protein couple receptor (GPCR), and when i prep my lysate for SDS page gel run I heat them up at 95C/3 min. I am getting protein aggregation in my...

02 March 2015 4,230 6 View

Has anyone come across S-myc tag rather than the conventional c-myc protein tag? Can we detect this protein tag using anti-c-myc antibodies or not?

Has anyone come across using S-myc tag rather than the conventional c-myc protein tag? I received a construct that had S-myc and I am not sure if this is the same tag as c-myc. There is no...

01 February 2015 10,018 6 View

Has anyone found double positive TCRb and TCRgd immune cells?

01 February 2015 8,152 7 View

Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence?

I am on the lookout for the Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence. Does anyone know where I can find it? Thank you in advance

03 March 2021 3,568 1 View

Why might my GFP tag be dissociating from my plasmid after transfection?

I have a set of stably transfected cell lines all transfected with plasmids containing GFP tags on the C terminus. During a western blot using anti-GFP antibody, one of my plasmids has dissociated...

01 March 2021 9,310 4 View

Precipitate after adding laemmli buffer to protein solution containing Potassium Acetate?

Hi, I am running a size exclusion chromatography experiment with a buffer containing Potassium Acetate as a salt. I analyse these fractions through SDS-PAGE. After boiling my SEC fractions in...

01 March 2021 2,622 3 View

Is CD44 degraded in lysosome together with hyaluronan after CD44 mediated endocytosis of hyaluronic acid?

Also when RHAMM binds hyaluronic acid, they get internalized, will RHAMM also be degraded? Or both CD44 and RHAMM will be transferred back to the cell membrane? Asking for breast cancer cell line...

01 March 2021 8,169 2 View

What is the most suitable server for predicting protein structures in bacteria?

I have used the i-Tasser several times, however it has been unavailable for several days. I tried the swiss-model, but the output was not very pleasant due to the model used. Is there any other...

28 February 2021 4,521 3 View

Do you need the CMV enhancer before the CMV promotor for a proper function of CMV on the gene that follows?

I'm a student and I have to produce a cell line with a knockin for the NRF2 gene with GFP. I have to put a promotor in front of the GFP because the gene will be too far away from the promotor of...

28 February 2021 7,127 2 View

Are protein samples in SDS compatible with ELISA?

I have used an AllPrep DNA/RNA/Protein Mini Kit QIAGEN kit to extract RNA and protein from my samples. At the end of the protein purification, I resuspend my protein in 5% SDS. Will these samples...

28 February 2021 7,370 3 View

LEDs on Vis Light photo degradation of MB water sol via N doped TiO2 in a mini flume?

Good day to all, I have no experience with light emitting diodes. I am building a glass mini flume to demonstrate the photo degradation of Methylene Blue in water running over self cleaning...

26 February 2021 4,026 5 View

Why do a weight decrease for thermal degradation in nitrogen gas condition?

Hi all The question is related to TGA(Thermogravimetric analysis). Thermal degradation easily understood but why do samples weight decrease? altough just binding is broked, the weight of...

26 February 2021 1,100 5 View

How to replicate the well conditions of a crystal hit with 20%(w/v) isopropanol?

I had a crystal hit in a well with 0.1M HEPEs pH 7.5, 10%(w/v) PEG 4000, and 20%(w/v) isopropanol. Why is isopropanol in w/v here if it's just solvent? How do I recreate this well condition?

25 February 2021 9,761 1 View