Can anyone help me to get a protocol for cresyl violet acetate staining for cultured neural cells?

I undergo differentiation of stem cells into neural cells in 6 well plate and i want to do cresyl violet acetate staining for those cultured cells as a step to confirm differentation.

06 July 2018 2,237 8 View

What is the optimal method for preservation of CSF (cerebrospinal fluid sample) for usage in cell culture as a source of growth factor?

I collect multiple CSf samples and i want to preserve them until collection of all samples complete for usage in cell culture as a source of growth factor. How can i transport the sample? How can...

05 June 2018 5,454 3 View

What is the best anticoagulant (& its conc.)to prevent PRP/culture media from gel formation?

When i add PRP on the culture media it converted from liquid state into gel but i need it in the liquid state . how can i dissolve this problem!

02 March 2018 6,059 0 View

What are the different concentration of a new compound can i start on cancer cell line to calculate IC50?

I have a new compound and i want to calculate IC50 but i dont know what are the concentrations i must start with as a bilot study.

11 December 2017 3,793 0 View

What are the different concentration of a new compound can i start on cancer cell line to calculate IC50?

I have a new compound and i want to calculate IC50 but i dont know what are the concentrations i must start with as a bilot study.

11 December 2017 5,915 8 View

A simple Colorimetric method to measure cell viability for adherent cells in 96-well plates using dye /stain?

The usual methods for measuring cell viability in proliferation cytotoxicity assay is MTT / MTS /.......... I ask for another Inexpensive method using only stain for large number of tested samples.

11 December 2017 7,684 4 View

What is the mechanism of stem cell differentiation ?

I want to Know how stem cell differentiation occur for general either in vivo or in vitro and if this mechanism differ from one cell type to another or not.

03 April 2017 2,812 3 View

How to perform MTS assay on suspended cells like Ehrilch cells or lymphocyte?

31 December 2016 7,889 2 View

How can calculate IC50 ?

11 December 2016 1,639 2 View

What are the difference between PRP and PRF and which method is preferable ?

I am confused between PRP and PRF Which is better!

09 October 2016 8,814 1 View

How do I increase the yield of my PCR product?

Hello, We would like to increase the yield of our PCR product. We are running a series of PCR reactions that is targeting ~1.1kb sequence. We begin each reaction with ~400pg of template DNA...

02 March 2021 4,029 3 View

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02 March 2021 3,060 3 View

Does Napabucasin soluble in dichloromethane and in ethanol?

I need to prepare a solution of Napabucasin (inhibitor of cancer cell stemness) in dichloromethane. The drug is expensive, so maybe somebody already tried to do it. If it is soluble, what is the...

02 March 2021 9,945 3 View

Does anyone know HRM channel in a 2 plex QIAGEN Rotor- Gene Q qPCR can be used as a separate channel?

I am going to have 3 different probes in my qPCR work that I am going to do. But I realized that the machine we have in the lab is a Rotor-Gene Q 2plex HRM Platform, saying it has green, yellow,...

01 March 2021 8,544 1 View

Issues with Permeabilization during Flow Cytometry?

Hello Everyone. Currently I am working to characterize macrophages in the myocardium after ischemia-reperfusion injury in rats. Due to the low total cell number isolated from rat hearts I can...

01 March 2021 3,867 3 View

Which cell line should we use to perform biological dosimetry experiments?

We are preparing some experiments based on irradiating cells under different conditions in order to evaluate the effects in terms of DNA damage, genetic expression, etc. As our project is...

01 March 2021 3,355 3 View

How to address this issue in the analysis of Real-Time PCR results?

To dear Researchers, I was analyzing a series of concentration for estimation of Real-Time PCR efficiency. The concentration was 1:10. I used MS-excel to evaluate Slope. The result of slope was -8...

01 March 2021 8,683 4 View

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Does anyone have the experience of using Taq Man probes in the QIAGEN Rotar- Gene qPCR machine?

01 March 2021 5,311 1 View

Is it possible for two human neuronal cell lines to have different gene sequence for the same protein?

I am looking at the ATP1A2 (Sodium/Potassium ATPase alpha subunit 2) in two human neuronal cell lines. Expression levels of this protein seems to be almost equal when detected by one antibody....

01 March 2021 3,607 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