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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...
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potassium oxonate is used to induce hyperurecemia in rats . It has effect on relative kidney weight .
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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.
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Hello, everyone! I have been working with this model in my thesis protocol. I wanted to ask you if you have ever let your mice living after the administration of acetic acid 0.6% for more than 24...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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I need an automated system to help me count the total number of blood vessels and total number of muscle fibers (Cross section). It will be used for large muscle (Lateral and Medial Gastrocnemius)...
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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...
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Hi all, My lab has been working with Athymic Nude mice in order to test anti-cancer compounds in mice with tumor xenografts. The main cell line we work with is the epidermoid carcinoma line...
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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...
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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,...
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CCR6 inhibitor for rat in-vivo experiment.
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Kindly share your knowledge on the question. Thanks.
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Lonafarnib, a A Farnesyl Protein Transferase Inhibitor , sounds a promising treatment for patients with Progeria. But do you have an experience in managing the already established dyslipidemia in...
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Can you tell me, for which stage we find the greatest number of spermatids and spermatocytes 1?
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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.
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For my master thesis project I am trying to develop a path planning strategy for a robot-assisted ureteroscopy. Prior, I'd need to develop a 3D model of a patients urinary system from scans, do...
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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...
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We have tried calculating the artery to venal ratio,but on calculation the ratio is remaining unchanged for different images.we are unable to debug it. # detecting artery and vein mask2 =...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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