What is the pigment used for dyeing embryonic implantation sites in the mother's womb?

Which fluorescent dye to use for measuring total ROS production?

Is DCFDA appropriate for measuring total ROS production, or can it only detect certain types of ROS? If I want to measure total ROS production, which dye should I use?

01 March 2021 9,447 3 View

Is there anyone who experienced with cytotoxic effect of Hoescht 33342 dye?

Is Hoechst toxic to cells? In general, it is known as non-toxic. I am working with dsRED MDA-MB-231 cell line. I applied it for my PDMS-based microfluidic platform, for this reason, I incubated...

26 February 2021 9,119 3 View

In methylene blue test Why is UV absorbance reading very low as soon adsorbent is added and then increasing before reaching equilibrium?

Hello, I'm working on removal of methylene blue. 01. in the dark test very first reading is taken 15 minutes after adding adsorbent to the dye solution and that UV absorbance reading is very...

19 February 2021 472 5 View

What to do with absence of fluorescence label in Fucci2a mouse-derived fibroblast culture?

Dear all, I have harvested fibroblast cells from R26p-Fucci2 mouse embryos (mouse line as described in this paper: https://dev.biologists.org/content/140/1/237) and cultured them on plastic,...

17 February 2021 3,368 2 View

Has anyone performed a colorimetric RT-LAMP assay using Lucigens LavaLAMP kit?

Hi there, my lab recently opted to use LavaLAMP from Lucigen instead of the Warmstart kit from NEB. However, Lucigen has yet to create a colormetric kit for RT-LAMP, and adding phenol-Red (pH...

17 February 2021 5,399 1 View

Should the AUC in a concentration-time graph of a subcutaneous implant be roughly the same for poeple?

I have 2 concentration time curves of a subcut drug implant. the first group has a peak around the 50 day mark where as the second group does not. Both groups received the same implant by the same...

10 February 2021 2,305 3 View

Why stop the reaction in ice for the fluorescent probe FDA (fluorescein diacetate)?

Hi, In literature I noticed that who stains haemocytes with FDA for 30 min then stop the reaction in ice while this does not apply for 15 min incubation time (or maybe authors did not write this...

08 February 2021 3,366 3 View

What is the possible cause of MSCs low growing?

Hello Everyone, We are inexperienced in culture of MSCs trying to grow a sample from BM of a mare. It is the second time that after preparation of new medium (DMEM-F12 with high glucose - 10% Hy...

07 February 2021 9,989 7 View

How to make Fast Green FCF from powder?

Hi everyone We need Fast Green to electroporate plasmid into mice embryos, therefore we simply need it to see some color in the liquid we are electroporating so that electroporation is more...

07 February 2021 1,671 2 View

Why do cells die after adding MTT dye?

I was doing MTT assay, and in the last day before adding the MTT; the cells looked good (or so I think), but after aspiration of the drug and addition of MTT dye I noticed that most cells seemed...

07 February 2021 3,846 4 View