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

Binary Logistic Generalized Linear Mixed model in SPSS. Is it doable?

I want to analyses the proportion of swimming sperm of three species of fish in two salinities. To analyse the proportion of swimming sperm in a Generalized Linear Model, I would use a Binary...

03 March 2021 2,297 3 View

Looking for Materials with high thermal expansion coefficient and high temperature resistance?

03 March 2021 8,272 1 View

Guidelines for survey (question type) analysis?

Hi. Please tell me what guidelines should i need to follow for questionaries' type research work in India. It is not hospital based work, we are conduction basic institutional based qualitative...

03 March 2021 2,037 3 View

What are the values needed for gabor filter's parameter for cifar10 data?

Hi, I implemented a code to gabor filter cifar10 data but the images after being filtered and stacked are not clear like the original images. I think the problem is in the way I am using the...

03 March 2021 6,317 1 View

Can we block unwanted images during the x-ray prediction?

i am try to classify the x-ray images. During classification , can i block unwanted images (except x-ray image).

03 March 2021 7,100 1 View

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03 March 2021 5,360 2 View

What techniques can I use to determine the miscibility of polymer blends?

The term miscibility refers to the single-phase state in thermodynamics. I do not mean the compatibility of different components. To determine the miscibility I know several techniques such as...

03 March 2021 4,107 4 View

Sample dilution for quantitative analysis using ELISA?

If the detection range is in ng/ml but the reference range is in ug/ml for a molecule or protein in serum or plasma .how to dilute and what is the initial volume to be taken for quantitative analysis

02 March 2021 7,670 3 View

Is it possible to do piezoelectric coupling in ANSYS-APDL or COMSOL between tapered substrate and rectangular piezoelectric patch?

How to do Piezoelectric coupling in ANSYS-APDL or COMSOL between tapered substrate and rectangular piezoelectric patch? Piezoelectric coupling between the rectangular substrate and rectangular...

02 March 2021 9,833 3 View

RIA. How to measure?

When you use RIA, with a control the unknown sample with antibodies, you bare in mind the binding sites of the antibodies. However you still need to measure labelled antigen (radioactive) and not...

28 February 2021 2,133 3 View

Can anyone share his experience regards Smoothing in origin?

I am working on TiO2 composite material and the results of XRD have a lot of small/junk peaks and while I apply a smooth filter in Origin then the other characteristics peaks disappear so anyone...

26 February 2021 8,183 3 View

How T cells recognise non-peptide antigens?

This might sound very basic question, but please share with me an explanation of how the T cell is activated when the antigen is not a peptide? What happens? And what are the molecules involved in...

21 February 2021 564 3 View

Will it be possible to get IC:50 if we target cancer cell line with antibody drug conjugate (ADC) that have 50% less antigen positive cells ?

Is it possible to attain IC50 if my target cells have less than 50% antigen expression ? For example: Cancer cell line XXX is showing 35% of expression of cell surface antigen YYYY, if i...

04 February 2021 2,711 3 View

Can I heat my ELISA at 37C?

Hello, I am conducting a sandwich-type ELISA. It is to see if small molecules can interfere with a protein-protein interaction. As this interaction would occur in the human body, may I heat...

31 January 2021 4,271 3 View

How to characterize epitopes within a peptide sequence?

Greetings In a theoretical perspective, I want to use a human-derived peptide as a plausible antigen but the problem associated with tolerance hampers my approach. Then I thought why not denature...

20 January 2021 2,201 1 View

How can I do antigen retrieval for proliferative markers (MCM2, Ki67 etc) While preserving a sensitive endogenous reporter?

I am trying to do antigen retrieval on mouse brain sections to stain for proliferative markers like MCM2, Ki67, PCNA etc on tissue that has mCherry conjugated to a transcription factor of interest...

18 January 2021 1,023 3 View

How to measure/estimate media pH inside the incubator?

I am having an issue with measuring the pH of my media. I use D-MEM/F12 media (without buffer) and try to adjust it to pH = 7.4. Since I incubate it @ 37C / 5% CO2, I added 2.5 g/L of NaHCO3...

18 January 2021 3,816 1 View

Can anyone walk me through IHC/IF Staining of Cryosectioned Brain Tissues?

I'm looking to do some IHC/IF staining of X. laevis brains that have been frozen in OCT media for cryosectioning. I understand how to do the cryosectioning, but I am hoping for help/protocols that...

14 January 2021 9,752 2 View

Just did Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in a Mixing Elbow using ANSYS Fluent as per instructed but I got my net result in negative in Flux Reports. why?

Got negative results in flux reports can I get some solid answers for it, so I can reconsider on my problem, briefly can anyone describe briefly the issue that may have caused such answers? As...

08 January 2021 880 3 View