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Good day scholars. Please I need to measure the blood pressure of rats at interval. I will appreciate if anyone can help with link to get this tail cuff/monitor?📱
26 July 2021 8,318 2 View
I have two specific questions: My rat heart is about 1x1x2cm and wet weight is around 1.3 grams. - How long do I need to fixate rat heart slices of 2mm thickess in 4%PFA for IHC? - How long do...
26 July 2021 6,905 3 View
There are rat strains that are more likely than others to spontanuously develop tumors. Are there litteratures covering this questions?
23 July 2021 8,264 1 View
I want to know how long it will take for Cardiomyopathy to develop in STZ treated rats in order to validate my model. Please provide references.
18 July 2021 1,970 2 View
Is there a difference between the beta amyloid marker Thioflavine-S and Methoxy-X04? Is there a difference in plaque morphology? Is the target structure different? thanks a lot.
09 July 2021 9,380 2 View
Does anyone have experience in extracting proteins from rat white adipose tissue? I would like to analyse them in Western Blottingand I couldn't remove all fat cake from samples. Thanks!
30 June 2021 7,894 3 View
I am working with a rat dermis decellularization protocol that includes the following step: Incubate skins in 1% Triton X-100 in 0.26% Tris/0.69% EDTA for 6 hours and then overnight I am a...
23 June 2021 3,812 2 View
I want to know the drug(s) or chemical compound(s) that can cause enlargement of spleen and how (dose) to administer it.
21 June 2021 2,953 1 View
I want to analyze the behavior of rats in forced swimming test and open field test
18 June 2021 5,099 2 View
Doe anyone know a vendor that supplies CA20948 rat pancreatic carcinoma cells?
16 June 2021 1,117 0 View
The aim is to induce insulin resistance in male wistar rats weighted 200-300 grams, fed with normal chow
13 June 2021 1,022 3 View
the aim is to induce insulin resistance.
12 June 2021 6,477 1 View
Can we use a human kit to measure male sex hormones in a rat?
08 June 2021 5,802 3 View
When performing novel object recognition test some rats were doing well in the familiarization phase but did not move at all in the test phase when the novel object was added to the arena. Those...
06 June 2021 3,849 2 View
Can I use the tail vein blood collection? It's for ELISA. What other option is recommended? Thank you
02 June 2021 9,124 2 View
Good day scholars. Please I need a step by step guide on how to collect vaginal smear and examine it for the presence of sperm. This is just to identify Pregnancy Day 1 when I am to start dosing...
31 May 2021 2,657 4 View
Hi, I'm trying to induce cellular senescence in HaCaT cells. I tried H2O2 and then tried to check the cellular senescence using S A beta gal assay. Unfortunately I didn't succeed to get SAbeta...
28 May 2021 4,729 4 View
I'm going to analyze GSK-3 concentration in rat hippocampus homogenate but I don't know how correctly should I calculate this concentration per total protein level examined by Bradford method?
18 May 2021 7,280 1 View
I am performing intravitreal injections on postnatal day P2 or P3 neonatal rat pups with an AAV vector and wondering if anyone can comment on how the rats tolerate injections in both eyes as...
14 May 2021 8,709 3 View
We are searching for the best accessible vein, and an approach without anaesthesia.
29 April 2021 9,984 4 View
I was wondering if it would be better to treat the rats in during their most active time
27 April 2021 6,928 1 View
Hello! I want to isolate RBEC from a rat, I used the protocol - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4208856/. However, I used 5-day old rats instead of adult rats. Subsequently, the...
26 April 2021 9,300 2 View
rAAV2/5 even though it is expressing the fluorescent tag in vivo, in the rat cortex, it is not working at all in the primary cultures.
17 April 2021 4,835 1 View
Can we inject sumanirole maleate intracranially in rat?
13 April 2021 9,569 1 View