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Has anyone ever used viruses to express fluorescent proteins in living insects?

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Is there a free tool to calculate/simulate the vibrational spectra of common molecules?

Hello, can anyone suggest me a free bioinformatic tool to calculate/simulate the vibrational spectra of common simple molecules (i.e. C-6, C-7 alcohols, aldehydes, and ketones)?

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Any known marker for neuronal activity in insects?

I am looking for markers such as c-fos or phospho-CREB that could reveal neuronal activity in honeybee. So far I have found only d-fos (or kayak, the drosophila homolog) but there is no good...

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Any good markers for insect synapses?

I am searching for markers alternative to "SYNAPSIN" to stain insect synaptic terminals. Any ideas? Possibly a rabbit antibody.

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Where to buy viral vectors?

I am looking for a baculovirus vector expressing calcium reporters in neurons. I know some companies prepare custom viral vectors and sell aliquotes of the most commercial ones. Can anyone...

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Regarding an unpublished IHC/ICC data and results database?

We have been thinking about all IHC and ICC data that we have collected during our PhD and that will never be published. In fact, only a minor portion of all experimental work have been published...

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Has anyone ever used the anti-Repo or anti-Elav antibodies for IHC?

I am trying to perform immunohistochemistry on the whole brain of bees using antibodies anti-Repo and anti-Elav (from DSHB, Iowa) but with very little result. Has anyone experience with one of...

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"Intra venous" injection in honeybees, is it possible?

Is it possible to do some kind of iv injection in honey bees in order to deliver a molecule systemically?

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Does GFAP antibody work in Drosophila?

Invertebrates have also glial cells but they are a bit "different" and less specialized than the one we can find in mammals. Does anyone know if markers such as GFAP, EAAT-1, EAAT-2, GLUTAMINE...

09 October 2012 2,430 8 View

How to measure an increase of astrocytes' synaptic coverage?

I would like to measure a possible change in synaptic coverage by astrocytes upon memory formation. Do you think there is some way to measure it by IHC and optic microscopy (mainly 2-photon...

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