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

Ubiquitin turnover controlled by?

03 April 2015 449 0 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

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

Which of the Covid-19 Vaccines would elicit the best immunoprotection and why?

I want to know which of the available Covid-19 Vaccines would elicit the best immunological response and why

02 March 2021 1,388 3 View

How to repeat an operation on an atom selection for multiple times in PyMol?

Hi, I am trying to construct a multi-layer fibril structure from a single layer in PyMol by translating the layer along the fibril axis. For now, I am able to use the Translate command in PyMol...

02 March 2021 4,569 4 View

What analysis to choose with a large neste dataset and clearly skewed or kurtotic distributions?

Hello! I have a dataset of n=3000 nested within 8 countries with approximately 200 or 400 responses in each country. I originally planned to perform multilevel modelling with 4 dependent variables...

02 March 2021 6,865 1 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

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

Is there a method of determining feed digestibility without the need to re-pellet the feed?

I am aiming to determine the ADC values of a commercial fish feed, but I do not have a steam pelleter or extruder available to me. Ideally, the pellets could be coated with some inert marker....

28 February 2021 7,967 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

Can Ethovision store the generated data and video recordings directly to NAS system?

The size of data generated by Ethovision is huge. Having NAS system for data storage seems to be a good option, I am wondering whether Ethovision can directly store the data to the NAS system...

27 February 2021 6,350 2 View