Run-Ze Chen

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What's the characteristic of synapsin promoter?

Does synapsin promoter drive specific gene expression only in brain or universally in all central nervous system, including spinal cord?

12 December 2016 3,440 0 View

If we want to give stress to spinal cord motor neurons in vivo, can we do intracerebroventricular injection of toxic drug into mouse brain CSF?

Recently, we want to challenge mouse spinal cord motor neurons with toxic chemicals in vivo, can we apply the chemicals by intracerebroventricular injection? We are wondering if the CSF can take...

04 April 2016 2,302 5 View

If I want to overexpress a gene in primarily cultured motor neuron, can I use PCMV promoter to drive the gene expression?

Recently I want to overexpress a gene in primarily cultured motor neuron. Someone told me if I use virus to infect the cells, I have to choose a motor neuron specific promoter because the gene...

03 March 2016 556 4 View

We know the lower motor neurons in the spinal cord are ChAT positive, so is the upper motor neuron in the motor cortex also ChAT positive?

We already used ChAT antibody to immunostain the lower motor neurons in the spinal cord and we could see the ChAT positive cells. But now we want to see the upper motor neurons in the motor cortex...

03 March 2016 5,613 2 View