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How can chemical laboratory experiments be done on pregnant rats? Upon knowing the effect of a chemical substance, protein, hormonal or enzyme on animals, experiments with pregnant rats .. Do any...
23 July 2020 6,166 1 View
Hi! Anyone knows whether I can performe behavioral tests in rats at PND30 and then, repeate them at PND60? Or this is not correct? Thanks.
21 July 2020 3,756 3 View
Dear Experts, I have studied the magnetic properties of a perovskite cobaltite and found that Curie-temperature (TC=147 K) is decreasing and Curie-temperature (TCW) is increasing with an...
21 July 2020 3,881 4 View
How do I use deamethasone to supress rat Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis? What is the dose normally used (eg. 3 mg/kg once or repeat for many dayds.....) and how long the supressed effects...
18 July 2020 4,084 2 View
potassium oxonate is used to induce hyperurecemia in rats . It has effect on relative kidney weight .
14 July 2020 5,808 3 View
I am looking for a reliable and sensitive AMH ELISA for use with rat serum (and potentially plasma). Recommendations are welcomed! Thank you in advance.
09 July 2020 3,318 2 View
I am asking whether there are any differences between mouse and rat microglia. For example the density, flow cytometry isolation protocols, number of isolated cells, surface markers, antibodies,...
04 July 2020 1,802 3 View
We have IVIS lumina 2, which is currently having a problem of camera not being cooled to recommended range of -90C. What happens exactly if it does not cool to -90C? My understanding is that it'll...
01 July 2020 4,239 1 View
Rat heart tissue, I am assaying for CSE/CTH protein expression always give a triplelt bands at 72,56 and 45Kda (Published data only showing a single band detected at 45Kda in heart tissue). The...
25 June 2020 4,890 3 View
I am doing a baseline + 2 rounds of behavioural testing (NOR + NLR) - so total 3 rounds of testing, all 1 week apart in male SD rats. Is it necessary to habituate them before every test, or is...
18 June 2020 9,178 5 View
Hi We have overexpressed a gene from Wnt family in cell lines. We further assessed tumorigenesis and metastasis in NOD/SCID xenograft model. We were surprised that our overexpressed gene was...
08 June 2020 5,756 0 View
The VIZIONS project in Vietnam in 2018 examined bat and rat urine and faeces. Alpha coronavirus was found in bats, beta in rats, with a comment that rats in China also carry coronavirus. So,...
11 May 2020 8,105 5 View
CCR6 inhibitor for rat in-vivo experiment.
04 May 2020 5,761 1 View
I have assayed rat FSH and LH in serum and the kit instructions show that the units are mU/ml. How to convert this unit to ng/ml. Thanks in advance.
09 April 2020 8,153 7 View
Hello, everyone! I want to ask how to remove TMJ from rat's head? Is there a protocol or instruction? And, if I want to do micro-CT for TMJ of rat, can I scan the whole head or after removal will...
23 March 2020 8,814 4 View
As N-methyl-N-nitrosourea is a carcinogen used to induced mammary tumor in rats for breast cancer model development and we ran out of carcinogen what could be the possible alternative or the...
20 March 2020 7,684 1 View
Why is STZ considered to be inconvenient for type 1 diabetes? if when you inject the rats they are not insulin dependent at low doses (45 mg/kg), but if they are hyperglycemic rats. if it were...
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Hi all, can we use wild rats in experimentation for UVA exposed photoaged rat skin model. and later to use some biomedical materials to examine the anti-photoaging potential of that biomedical...
10 March 2020 8,724 3 View
For a specific study I need to have female pregnant rats irraiated on E17. Currently I am using Long-Evans. I have used several methods to see if the female rats (currently 2 of them) are...
09 March 2020 199 2 View
I am trying to simulate AD conditions in rats using Amyloid Beta 1-42 oligomers for which I would like to know the best methods for its processing. I have read about the use of...
07 March 2020 4,327 3 View
Hi, I'm trying to find a conjugated anti-rat Nrf2 monoclonal antibody for flow cytometry analysis in rat models. Unfortunately, i'm yet to find a conjugate that has been tested in rat samples. The...
04 March 2020 5,631 6 View
Hello, We're looking to do a research project on gut motility in an animal model. Does anyone know of where to buy rat pellets to trace gut motility?
03 March 2020 1,754 1 View
I want help in calculation of the dose given to infected rat with bacteria from plant extract, i have done mic microdilution method it was 1.65 mg/ml. How to calculate the dose to rat
02 March 2020 8,226 1 View
I'm having trouble to analyze the data I collected from experiments. In my experimental design I'm testing how sound intensities and interval between sound stimuli influence the reflex response...
02 March 2020 5,918 1 View