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I am planning to assess the phagocytic activity of WT and gene-specific knockout macrophages using peritoneal cavity cells and flow cytometry. However, I’m wondering whether it is necessary to let...
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I am finding it hard to trypsinize the M2-polarized U937 cells for functional assays, even when using 5 ng/ml PMA for differentiation. Any suggestions on how to lift the cells for seeding? Will...
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Which of the staining method (crystal violet/ hematoxylin) is preferred to stain the trans well migration assay membrane and why?
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I am planning to perform a phagocytosis assay for THP1-derived M2 macrophages. According to the Vybrant phagocytosis assay kit, it says to incubate the cells in the assay plate for an hour before...
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What is the impact of DMSO on calcium influx, and why does it lead to a significant decrease in fluorescence when compared to the control group without treatment during ATP-induced Fluo-4 assay...
29 September 2023 7,473 2 View
I am planning to measure ca influx of an ion-gated receptor treated with its agonist and antagonist in THP1 differentiated macrophages. and looking for an optimized protocol. Thanks
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I am currently using the TRAMPC2 cells, but I am looking for any other cell lines I can use in C57BL/6 mice.
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I am planning to measure the intracellular calcium level in THP1-derived macrophages and am looking for a protocol or kit to do so.
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I am planning to do some phagocytic assays on THP1-derived macrophages and am looking for a suitable phagocytic assay kit.
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Any optimized protocol for gene knockdown in THP1 cells using siRNA?
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Please suggest any colorimetric based phagocytosis assays for THP1 differentiated macrophages
20 December 2022 6,640 3 View
I have the M1 and M2a subtypes of macrophages that I differentiated and polarized from THP-1 monocytes. I wanted to know the most suitable phagocytosis assays (preferably colorimetric method),...
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I am differentiating THP1 cells using PMA. Which are the good markers for determining human macrophage differentiation using qPCR?
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I have extracted RNA from tumor tissue sample and wondering whether the basal level of p53 expression enough to do RT PCR amplification using p53 transcript specific primers? Thank you
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Is MX-1 breast cancer cell line P53 wild type or mutant?
29 January 2016 2,576 3 View
We cultured MX-1 in RPMI medium and the cells died. We are trying now with DMEM medium and still the growth is really slow. it is the 5th day and still it did not reach even 50% confluent. Is...
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I am planning to analyse TP53 mutation using FASAY. I have got the P3/P4 primers (which has phosphorothioate linkage) as per in the published paper. I was trying to optimize the P3/P4 primers by...
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I wanted to check the effect of my drug on the migration of M1 and M2 stages of THP1 cells. How can I do that? Once they are polarized to M1 and M2 stages, if I trypsinize them will they still...
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