Can anyone provide the complete guidelines for drug development for topical formulations for wound healing?

We have evaluated the wound healing potentials of different compounds at particular concentrations in laboratory animals. Now, we want to move in the direction of drug development for some topical...

31 December 2019 7,095 1 View

How to determine the antioxidant effect of our nanoparticles by DPPH method?

We want to determine the antioxidant effects of our prepared formulation of nanoparticles by DPPH method. Our formulation is having some col and different excipients/vehicles. Please also tell how...

09 October 2019 9,228 2 View

What is the difference / significance between western blot and IHC for assessing same growth factor/other marker (e.g. TGF-beta1, alpha-SMA, VEGF)?

I am interested in assessing the expression of some growth factor (e.g. TGF-beta 1) or other marker (e.g. PCNA, CD31). I want to know the difference in term of significance for assessing the same...

02 March 2018 6,697 3 View

Can anyone provide me the reference of Wilson's formula for % wound contraction?

I want to measure the % wound contraction from the data of wound area by using Wilson's formula. Can anyone provide me the formula and reference for this formula?

05 June 2016 6,270 0 View

Can anyone suggest or provide PDF file of books on dose selection of herbal drugs and their formulation development?

I want to mix two and more than 2 herbal drugs for the preparation of herbal formulation. Can anyone suggest or provide me the PDF file of books on herbal dose selection, their standardization in...

04 May 2016 4,262 0 View

Can anyone suggest or provide PDF file of books on wound healing?

04 May 2016 6,808 1 View

Is DMSO safer for wounds?

I want to disolve drugs in DMSO and want to apply them topically on wounds, but some researchers have pointed me that it is cytotoxic even at lower concentration i.e. 10% or more. Can anyone...

03 April 2016 1,196 8 View

Does DMSO has adverse effect on topical application on wound or healing tissue?

I am using DMSO as a vehicle for dissolving the drug for the the topical application on wounds. Dose anyone have observed the adverse effect of DMSO on wound healing or other side effects?. What...

03 April 2016 4,096 5 View

Is tri-sodium citrate used for prepration of citrate buffer dissolving streptozotocin?

Citrate buffer is used for dissolving the streptozotocin for diabetes induction. Is the tri-sodium citrate used for tie preparation of citrate buffer?

03 April 2016 8,399 2 View

Can we use dried/lypholozed methanolic extracts of plants for feeding to animals?

I have prepared some plant extracts in different solvents and among them methanolic extracts are showing best in-vitro results for antioxidant potentials. Now, I want to feed or administer these...

01 February 2016 9,794 4 View

Gel electrophoresis result for total RNA samples, 1.5 Agarose gel was used, How to improve the integrity of RNA?

Gel electrophoresis, RNA degradation, RNA extraction from fresh tissue

02 March 2021 5,433 5 View

Problem with shRNA transfection. Why are only two plates getting contaminated instead of all?

I transfected my LNCaP-WT cells with 3 shRNA plus their NTC two weeks ago and split two puromycin selected cell plates on Friday last week(Feb 26). I checked for GFP in the cells, and they all...

28 February 2021 4,949 3 View

Any specific pipeline or parameter to analyse total transcriptomics study of brain tissue samples?

I have two groups of brain samples, control and treated for example. It was total RNA nova seq sequencing. I tried all the available pipeline like: star+rsem+deseq2, Hista+stringtie+cuffdiff,...

27 February 2021 356 6 View

Why is the efficiency of viral mRNA electroporation in PBMC low?

Hello, I have been struggling with the electroporation of PBMC with HIV-I mRNA. Although the quality of the RNA generated is good, and the handling of the cells in meticulous, the frequency of...

27 February 2021 9,233 3 View

What is the best concentration of cDNA to be used for qPCR?

I have synthesised cDNA from 500ng/ul of RNA. The concentration of the cDNA Is about 5000ng/ul. Should I dilute my cDNA or just use it as it is for my qPCR? I usually use 2ul of cDNA for a 20ul...

24 February 2021 8,618 3 View

Recommendations on homogenizers for RNA isolation?

I will be performing RNA isolation with frozen lung biopsy samples and am in the market for a tissue homogenizer. I am wanting a homogenizer that will fit in a 1.5ml tube. I was looking at the...

24 February 2021 3,623 3 View

RNA-seq DEGs downstream analysis and reporting in literature?

I used EdgeR to get the list of DEGs (differentially expressed genes) from my liver RNA-seq experiment. I have done the gene overrepresentation and GSEA based pathway analysis. I am currently...

23 February 2021 8,969 1 View

Is it efficient to do liquid biopsy to investigate the gene expressions of the tumor?

To do liquid biopsy and look for specific gene expressions there are so many published papers. Thera are different protocols and procedures used to isolate circulating cell free RNA or mRNA from...

23 February 2021 7,326 5 View

QPCR reaction efficiency with odd results what does this indicate?

I am working on a CFX 96 machine to determine reaction efficiency of my gene of interest. After performing a serial dilution of my cDNA template, I was able to find great reaction efficiencies for...

23 February 2021 809 3 View

RNA degraded after good nanodrop readings?

23 February 2021 8,850 2 View