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I am currently doing analysis of antioxidant enzyme activities in rat liver tissue. I would be glad to get current reference on antioxidant enzymes and lipid peroxidation assays
18 December 2018 8,339 13 View
I am hoping to start using this model, but need more details about LPS administration.
10 December 2018 9,407 4 View
kindly inform what dose of LPS is suitable for Inducing Inflammation in wistar rats. Also inform about the best route of administration LPS. what is the time gap that should be maintained to...
10 December 2018 9,189 1 View
Any one can shear me article about adrenal cortex dimension 1: Adrenal cortex =? 2: Zona glomerulosa =? millimeter 3: Zona Fasciculata =? millimeter 4: Zona Riticularis =? millimeter 5:...
01 December 2018 724 1 View
Is it possible to induce metabolic acidosis in rats by depriving them with food and water (fasting)? If yes, for how many days they should be fasted to induce chronic metabolic acidosis? How long...
30 November 2018 9,926 1 View
Link for detailed procedure is required.
25 November 2018 921 2 View
What is the difference between Intraperitoneal injection and intravenous administration when treating rats?
13 November 2018 355 3 View
Hello all! Recently I ran a two-chamber conditioned place preference (CPP) test with rats, activating specific neurons through an excitatory DREADD (with surgery-naive rats as controls). The CNO...
08 November 2018 6,229 1 View
I want to perform adrenalectomy in rats for my study. But I don't know how long rats can live after the surgery? What are the things to care during or after surgery?
02 November 2018 8,077 1 View
I gone through many Ms in which the composition of cafeteria diet is mentioned in grams and in some there is no measurements and units. can any one suggest me whether the preparation is for Kg....
02 November 2018 968 0 View
I am culturing cerebellar neurons, isolated from rat. I am unable to figure out the kind of these cells, I observed in my flask.
28 October 2018 5,376 4 View
We consider the effect of the reward mechanism on improving rat cancer. But why do these emotions target only cancer cells? And how do positive emotions lead to the destruction of cancer cells?
26 October 2018 7,325 3 View
We are attempting to label microglial cells in rat brain slices, however, facing some troubles with Iba-1. Does anyone suggest another specific marker for rat microglial cells? Is there a marker...
25 October 2018 445 10 View
Hi, I'm looking for non-surgical, non-traumatic models of prefrontal lesion in rat. I'm aware of rotenone, but because of peripheral issues I can't use this substance. I thought of 6-OHDA, but I'm...
25 October 2018 2,996 3 View
Why not subcutaneous or intraperitoneal injection?
21 October 2018 5,229 2 View
This is not a very specific question, more so I am looking for expertise in the area of ultrasound techniques to assess vascular kinematics. My main use for this technique would be to evaluate...
17 October 2018 329 0 View
Hi all, I'd like to FACS D1 and D2 MSNs from rat striatum with the aim of doing either qPCR or RNAseq. ASFAIK, all commercially available ab's are not worth a dime and for practical reasons I...
09 October 2018 531 1 View
I would like to extract placenta of rats on E7 in order to perform qPCR, but I don't know how to dissect the tissue properly.
09 October 2018 4,581 1 View
i want to now this value with exact reference for my research project.
21 September 2018 2,644 1 View
How long is it stable at body temperature in rats?
18 September 2018 2,091 3 View
accurate method for stone formation in short time
18 September 2018 6,073 3 View
Hi, I'd like to do some ECHO ultrasound of hearts in mammals the size of rats. Does anyone have a recommendation for a good but cheap instrument? I can look for used too! Thanks!
18 September 2018 423 3 View
The problem is, we get quickly bleaching in acute slices of rat brain, when we work with different nucleus (Acc, DRN and RMTg). The signal in the videos are not clear, we got a noisy signal and,...
17 September 2018 5,613 5 View
What could be the probable mechanism underlying the reduction in body weight of L-NAME treated rats when compared to Control rats?
15 September 2018 7,052 2 View