Could the desmin mutation in myofibrillar myopathy be caused by an infection?

A patient with desminopathy (mutation Thr341Pro DES in a heterozygous state) with the progression of the disease has a decrease in taste and smell, immunosuppression, and an increase in IgA in the...

02 November 2020 5,886 6 View

How can we explain the decrease in taste in a patient with desminopathy (myofibrillar myopathy)?

A patient with hereditary desminopathy (mutation Thr341Pro DES in a heterozygous state) with disease progression has a significant decrease in taste. How can this fact be explained?

15 September 2020 3,742 4 View

Can Protein A tag interact directly with secondary antibodies on western blotting?

Hi, everyone! Does anybody have experience with WB of ProtA tagged proteins? Can it give a non-specific signal when you probe the membrane with control ab to different size protein?

29 November 2017 5,953 1 View

Can antibidy react with loading buffer?

Hi, I'm trying to perform some blotting with yeast Trf4 protein, but each time get strange result with nonspecific spots. It appear even in control wells, filled with water+loading dye, but not in...

26 June 2017 3,477 2 View

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05 June 2016 8,332 8 View

Is it necessary to reduce the level of uric acid in the blood of a patient with desminopathy (myofibrillary myopathy)?

01 January 1970 422 3 View

How can I reduce the level of the pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukin-6 (Il-6) in myofibrillar myopathy?

Over the past six months, a patient with hereditary desminopathy (Thr341Pro DES mutation in the heterozygous state) has a 1.6-fold increase in the level of the pro-inflammatory cytokine...

01 January 1970 3,273 6 View

How can I reduce the level of C4 complement components for desminopathy?

Within three years, a patient with a desminopathy (Thr341Pro DES mutation) was found to have a 17% increase in the level of C4 complement components to 0.41 g / l (Norm 0.1-0.4 g / l).

01 January 1970 9,949 2 View

How to explain the increase in strength and muscle mass in a patient with desminopathy (myofibrillar myopathy) after refusing toothpaste?

A patient with hereditary desminopathy (Thr341Pro DES mutation in a heterozygous state) was recommended to refuse toothpaste. He continued to brush his teeth twice a day with a toothbrush with...

01 January 1970 2,158 10 View

New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before?

Question to you and THEM, the New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before? There appears to be a core problem for...

02 March 2021 3,024 2 View

Does anyone know HRM channel in a 2 plex QIAGEN Rotor- Gene Q qPCR can be used as a separate channel?

I am going to have 3 different probes in my qPCR work that I am going to do. But I realized that the machine we have in the lab is a Rotor-Gene Q 2plex HRM Platform, saying it has green, yellow,...

01 March 2021 8,544 1 View

What is the exact mechanism of the antimicrobial effect of local anesthetics?

The antimicrobial effect of local anesthetics has been known for more than 50 years, but it still seems to have an unclear mechanism of action. which bacteria? which concentration? etc etc. ....

27 February 2021 4,450 2 View

Unknown debris sheets observed in cell culture flasks?

Hi, We culture neural progenitor cells in T175 culture flasks coated with PLO-Laminin. We have successfully grown these cells with our protocol for months. Recently, we observed large sheets...

25 February 2021 3,443 4 View

Can we recognize signs of the "volatility clustering" property of a time series in its time domain plot?

My purpose is to recognize the volatility clustering property without statistical tests such as The Lagrange Multiplier (LM) test.

24 February 2021 4,150 3 View

How to run repeated measures in mvabund?

I have a dataset of fish species abundances collected from 6 different habitats over the course of 30 years. Fish were collected multiple times per year and environmental variables were recorded...

21 February 2021 3,838 1 View

Is there a method for evaluating nanoparticle adhesion to epithelial tissue in vitro?

I want to measure how well nanoparticles can transfect cells based on NP adhesion properties. In the literature I find people do it in animal studies, and epithelial adhesion helps in transfection...

21 February 2021 7,791 3 View

How do I collect online measures in a same-different task?

The same-different task requires to subjects to indicate whether a pair of stimuli seen or heard are the same (say AA or BB) or different (say AB or BA). Researchers often collect offline measures...

20 February 2021 9,226 2 View

Any Homemade Organic Synthesis Practices?

Hi everyone, I am a teacher of Heterocycles Synthesis, Is there a home practice that you recommend for undergraduate students? A simulator would also be useful Due to the pandemic, students...

18 February 2021 2,769 4 View

How to get rough estimation of the concentrations of Oxygen and moisture inside the glove box?

Dear colleagues, I was just wondering if you can suggest a good method to get a rough estimation to the concentration of O2 and H2O inside the glove box as unfortunately, our glove box doesn't...

17 February 2021 1,012 3 View