Hello, if the plant extract contains steroids based on its phytochemical results, is steroid an antihyperglycemic agent?

Our plant sample contains steroids based on the phytochemical results, and were having a hard time looking for some references about steroids' effect on lowering blood glucose level on mice.

31 January 2020 9,763 3 View

How to mutate a DNA sequence to stop binding to its specific primer?

I am doing reverse transcription using a semi-suppressive PCR therefore I introduce a template switching oligo at the 5' end of my transcript which is complementary to the PCR handle at the 3'...

03 October 2018 4,282 2 View

Is anyone aware of a plugin out there to perform discriminant analysis in PSPP?

If so, could you point me in the right direction? Can't seem to find anything.

09 January 2014 3,600 1 View

Need help making a Fiji (ImageJ) Tool

I'm working on manually analyzing a series of photographs of archaeological artifacts. Each photo contains a series of stone tool fragments laid out on a neutral background. I'm using Fiji image...

06 January 2014 5,335 10 View

Any common protocol for inflammatory stimulation of murine endothelial cells in vitro?

26 December 2013 1,701 9 View

Can the measurement of cytokine levels according to their half lives be useful?

A question of cytokine kinetics. In an activation assay, we usually want to measure effects of our treatment (whatever this might be) on pro- or anti-inflammatory cytokines. Most commonly...

28 November 2013 2,096 3 View

MPO activity assay - can anyone help?

I homogenized murine lungs in 0.5% w/v HDAB in 50mM sodium phosphate buffer to perform a MPO activity assay. The protocol I do have instructs that I should use 20ul of my samples with 160ul TMB...

01 October 2013 8,409 3 View

How fast should an ELISA plate be read?

I finished an ELISA assay and read it to discover two hours later that I saved the 630nm data which I used to correct my 450nm data. I immediately measured the plate again but I'm not sure whether...

05 September 2013 4,109 21 View

qPCR data representation

I have some qPCR data which I want to represent in graphs. I used to use the DCt values but the problem is that they are reciprocal to the expression changes (high DCt values means low expression)...

13 July 2013 4,875 2 View

What are your experiences with conducting (and publishing) online surveys?

I am interested in conducting an online survey and curious as to the requisite ethical approval and the receptiveness of peer-reviewed journals to the results. If anyone has any experience in...

02 July 2013 8,531 40 View

MD MOE RMSD

How to calculate the RMSD values for a MD simulation using MOE?

07 August 2021 0 0 View

MD MOE RMSD

How to calculate the RMSD values for a MD simulation using MOE?

07 August 2021 0 0 View

fatal error

When I tried to energy minimization my system, I got fatal error as below. Fatal error: Atomtype opls_116 not found Although I've already added this line: ; include water #include "oplsaa.ff/spc.itp" to [molecultype] directive in my topology.

16 June 2021 0 0 View

fatal error

When I tried to energy minimization my system, I got fatal error as below. Fatal error: Atomtype opls_116 not found Although I've already added this line: ; include water #include "oplsaa.ff/spc.itp" to [molecultype] directive in my topology.

16 June 2021 0 0 View

fatal error

When I tried to energy minimization my system, I got fatal error as below. Fatal error: Atomtype opls_116 not found Although I've already added this line: ; include water #include "oplsaa.ff/spc.itp" to [molecultype] directive in my topology.

16 June 2021 0 0 View

fatal error

When I tried to energy minimization my system, I got fatal error as below. Fatal error: Atomtype opls_116 not found Although I've already added this line: ; include water #include "oplsaa.ff/spc.itp" to [molecultype] directive in my topology.

16 June 2021 0 0 View

flexibility of polymers chain

effect of double bond on the flexibility of polymers

07 April 2021 0 0 View

Formulation of polymer color flakes

I am writing to request some information for making polymer color flakes. I would appreciate the help.

17 March 2021 0 0 View

Polymer composites suddenly solidifies?

I am making polymer composite by solvent mixing method. When I am trying to add filler solution in polymer solution it quickly get solidified. How to make them then uinform? It doesn't give time...

03 March 2021 7,540 4 View

Chlorinated organic formation in odor control scrubbers using hypochlorite?

I'm involved in a study of odor control technologies for municipal wastewater treatment plant. One of the control options involves a chemical 2-stage (acid/alkaline) packed bed scrubber. The...

03 March 2021 3,661 2 View