Is it possible to perform cardiac puncture followed by PBS perfusion with a pump?

Hello all, I will be perfusing mice with PBS for brain harvest and a colleague would like to collect the blood via cardiac puncture (these are 18m old mice so would be nice to maximize use). Has...

15 February 2021 5,312 2 View

What is the difference between blocking buffer tbs vs. pbs and which should I use?

Hi everybody! I am doing western blots on bovine mammary epithelial cells to determine casein. We have two types of blocking buffer in the lab. PBS:...

01 February 2021 9,278 5 View

What types of tubes should I use for allantoin assay?

Hi everyone, I am doing an allantoin assay in urine and all the protocols seem pretty vague. I am currently using this website which seems to be the most helpful:...

07 January 2021 8,023 3 View

What is growing inside a frozen 10X Ripa buffer?

Hello all! I have a strange question today...I noticed that a few of my aliquotted 10x RIPA buffers that were in the -20 C had some kind of potential mold (white balls, some clusters, some with...

20 December 2020 7,424 3 View

Prediction of novel precursor miRNAs in viral genomes?

Dear, I performed a multi-sequence alignment (MSA) with all the complete genome sequences of SARS-related viruses. I then used RNALalifold from the ViennaRNA package, with default parameters, to...

06 December 2020 1,704 3 View

What are these called?

Upon tissue plating for cell isolation, I start to see fibroblasts and after a while these 3D structures start to form. Are they called stroma? Someone in my building told me that she calls them...

30 November 2020 8,685 4 View

Plated Secretory Tissue from Udder--What type of cells are these?

Hello all! I plated some secretory tissue from the udder of a dairy cow. I am trying to isolate mammary epithelial cells. I found these cells on one of my plates, are these developing mammary...

28 October 2020 7,768 3 View

How difficult is Lysosensor to use in the lab?

How difficult is Lysosensor to use in a basic cell culture wet lab? Does anybody happen to have any advice and/or experience with this or similar probes? Thanks in advance!

15 September 2020 8,730 7 View

Quand est ce qu'un chercheur peut-il se sentir satisfait de ses publications?

18 May 2020 7,762 2 View

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18 May 2020 6,271 2 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

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

Could you please recommend some good journal that accept very long revie papers (approximately 6000+ words) in neurosurgery, cancer biology ?

Could you please recommend some good journal that accept very long revie papers (approximately 6000+ words) in neurosurgery, cancer biology ?

01 March 2021 8,087 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

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 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

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

Looking for genomic DNA extraction kits from mouse tissue (centrifuge-based, not spin-column)?

Hello. I am looking to extract genomic DNA from mouse brain and lungs and I need a kit that is not spin-column based because I need to scale up the solution amounts for 400mg tissue (most cap at...

25 February 2021 155 2 View

What are the pros and cons for mice versus rats?

Hi Everyone, I am designing a pilot study using rodents to assess the effects of simulated space environments (radiation + altered gravity) on microbiome and immune system. I have limited...

24 February 2021 1,825 3 View