Is there any chemical or surgical method to induce hypoxia in mouse model?

Dear all, My question is about Inducible hypoxia in vivo (mouse model). I'm looking for some chemicals that can induce the pathway of hypoxia or some other techniques. If you now know something...

15 December 2020 866 6 View

Acetic acid in liquid waste ?

Hy, may you suggest a method to quantify acetic acid in wastes or leaching test? Thanks in advance Stefano

10 December 2020 4,023 2 View

Did you have any problem for staining nuclear phosphorylated proteins in hippocampal neurones?

I was wondering if there may be a problem of permeabilisation of cells. I am working on mice hippocampus (pups) and I need to make a staining for a phoshoprilated nuclear protein. Since the...

17 September 2020 2,000 3 View

Glass or PVC material to perform a soil leaching experiment of pharmaceuticals?

Hello I am developing a soil column experiment to study pharmaceuticals transport and attenuation.I would like to know If is better to use a glass or a PVC column to perform this experiment and...

10 August 2020 6,214 3 View

How many researchers are interested in attending web communications in the field of Sustainable Planning?

17 June 2020 4,753 74 View

What happens to non-"preclincial essential research" (non Covid19) in Covid times?

Are you askiing what researchers are doing in Covid time especially those that work with animal? I started a survey to collect information (anonymous) to see whether there are alternatives to...

02 April 2020 9,596 3 View

Generic DC/HYBRID grid-connected microgrid available in simulink?

I'm looking for a microgrid simulation model written in simulink in order to implement my simulation data and test my Energy Management System algorithm. The microgrid I am looking forward is a...

24 October 2019 3,541 4 View

Is there an investigation about the real world implementation of decision making algorithms in smart home/microgrids EMS microcontrollers?

Implementation of stochastic and probabilistic based algorithm is a very tricky task especially in energy management systems microcontrollers. I'm looking for a research paper which talks about...

30 July 2019 5,947 1 View

What is the best choice for a ribosomal protein used as a loading control in WB?

Hi everyone. I have to assess protein expression in my adult satellite muscle cells by WB. I'd prefer not to use the conventional beta-actin or alpha-tubulin, nor GAPDH. I saw that 18S mRNA was...

24 June 2019 3,133 2 View

UDF function suggestion for my case study?

Good morning Everyone, I need a suggestion for my Master thesis study case. I want to simulate the behaviour of a thermal actuator located in a thermostatic mixing valve: I actually have a...

04 December 2018 9,582 3 View

Does anyone have a recommendation for yeast reporter gene plasmid/protocol?

Hi, could anyone recommend a plasmid and/or protocol for reporter gene assay in S. cerevisiae? I want to assess the effect of growth conditions on a transcription factor, so I want to clone it`s...

01 March 2021 210 1 View

Why might my GFP tag be dissociating from my plasmid after transfection?

I have a set of stably transfected cell lines all transfected with plasmids containing GFP tags on the C terminus. During a western blot using anti-GFP antibody, one of my plasmids has dissociated...

01 March 2021 9,310 4 View

What is the state of the drug inside solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs)?

I am a little confuse with the mechanism of solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs). The main point of encapsulating drugs into SLNs is because some drugs have low solubility in water. Therefore, SLNs...

01 March 2021 3,703 3 View

Expression cloning by using cDNA,do I need to modify the cDNA first?

I am going to have a expression cloning of mammalian gene by using shuttle plasmid to transforming the E.coli However I don't know I should only inserting the Coding sequence ,or I can...

28 February 2021 5,440 3 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

PUC19 as a transfer plasmid for lentiviral delivery?

Hello, Is it possible to use pUC19 as a transfer vector to be packed in using the second generation viral particles packaging system( pMD2.G; psPAX2 plasmids)? As far as I understand it there is...

28 February 2021 4,868 2 View

What are the application of Fixed points thoery in Chemistry.?

It is said that fixed point theory has lot of applications not in the field of mathematics only but also in various areas. So I am looking for applications in Chemistry only..

26 February 2021 3,533 1 View

Did anyone ever try using pLVX-TetOne Plasmid with a copGFP as a selection marker instead of Puromycin?

When using a lentiviral vector for inducible expression of genes using the Tet-On system. In the literature, I saw a widely used of pLVX-TetOne-Puro Plasmid, is there a reason why people prefer to...

25 February 2021 1,011 3 View

Why do the PCR bands from the cDNA templates (extraction from the cell after transfection) show different size from the band of the plasmid template?

After transfection with the plasmid ( linearized ) and subcloning of the cell lines, RNA was extracted from the cell and then reverse transcripted to cDNA. When PCR reactions were run to verify...

25 February 2021 5,712 3 View

How do I transfect a large plasmid into PC12 cells with nerve growth factor (NGF) receptor?

I have a large 16 kb plasmid, which I need to transfect into PC12 cells. Lipofectamin 2000 didn't work and with GFP alone the transfection rate is very low. I also tried the neon invitrogen...

25 February 2021 6,635 5 View