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The body fluid that circulates in the vascular system (BLOOD VESSELS). Whole blood includes PLASMA and BLOOD CELLS.
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Showing ABSTRACT moral absolutes probably don’t exist, women evolved to try to fix men’s flaws. Very few women cite Prince Charming as the sexiest man. God maybe designed women to desire the men they could fix or, all females would wait until the second coming to reproduce. Many women are sexually attracted to serial killers.
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Para abordar esta eterna cuestión, hay que empezar diciendo que esto no se trata de una cuestión universal, pues existen tantas mujeres como gustos diversos.
No obstante, es cierto que tenemos una tendencia general a sentir atracción por hombres con una cierta apariencia problemática o más coloquialmente entendido por "malotes", esto se puede explicar desde diversos puntos:
1.El impacto del cine: Las mujeres hemos crecido con unos ideales románticos marcados en el mundo del cine, esto va desde que éramos pequeñas hasta ahora. De pequeñas, en el mundo Disney siempre se nos mostraba que las princesas tenían que ser prudentes ,no ruidosas, cargar con el peso de la familia, y ser soñadoras, pero estos sueños nunca consiguieron ser cumplidos sin la ayuda de el príncipe, que por contrario a la princesa, representaba una figura dominante, valiente, protector y líder. Esto es un patrón que se repite en todas las películas de princesas.
Quizás sea este un motivo por el cual ese mensaje de que las mujeres no tenemos que sacar carácter porque es al hombre al que le corresponde esa función ,haya calado en nosotras tanto como para que a día de hoy lo llevemos a la práctica en nuestras relaciones romántico afectivas.
Pero lejos de quedarse en un tema perteneciente a la infancia y sus ideales románticos, hemos seguido creciendo en nuestra adolescencia con películas que nos vuelven a mostrar la figura del hombre desde un lado protector, pero esta vez desde un punto más extremo y comúnmente denominado como los malotes. Existen cantidad de ejemplos como H en a tres metros sobre el cielo, Guille de los serrano, Gorka de física o química ,Nate de Euphoria, Danny Zuko de Grease, y un largo etcétera de personajes masculinos que han marcado distintas generaciones. Todos estos personajes han hecho tanto que los hombres los tienen de referentes y apliquen sus conductas en la vida real ,como que las mujeres busquemos ese tipo de relaciones y romantizemos prácticas que en ningún caso son ejemplo de cómo tratar a alguien.
2.Complejo de salvadora: No es ningún secreto la cantidad de mujeres que existen con este complejo, el cual empezaremos definiendo de una manera más técnica: El complejo de salvadora es la tendencia exagerada al sacrificio y la ayuda a los demás a costa incluso de nuestro propio bienestar. Esta definición llevada a la práctica nos quiere decir que las mujeres lejos de huir ante el mal comportamiento de un hombre, con conductas ya sean agresivas, mentiras o celos compulsivos, tendemos a pensar que somos capaces de cambiarlos y hacerlos mejor persona, agarrándonos a los más mínimos avances o mejoras, recordando los escasos momentos buenos y justificando sus comportamientos con su pasado y presente, ya sea una dura infancia o una mala situación familiar actual.
3.Atracción por lo prohibido: Es una realidad que el peligro y lo prohibido llama la atención, quizás es provocado por la curiosidad que nos genera lo desconocido y el morbo que nos produce saber que no es lo correcto. Es igual en ese momento de inicio y descubrimiento cuando entramos en esa vorágine sin saber lo que tiempo después nos espera y una vez dentro tal vez no tengamos las herramientas suficientes como tanto para detectar el peligro de la situación como una vez detectado, tener la fuerza para salir de ese bucle.
4.Sentimiento de adrenalina: El testimonio de muchísimas mujeres al salir de una relación complicada con el prototipo de "malote", se repite, y es que tienden a seguir buscando ese prototipo en sus siguientes parejas de forma completamente inconsciente, pues al haber estado sometidas a conductas agresivas ,su cuerpo ha desarrollado como mecanismo de defensa un sistema de alerta que les hace estar en tensión, tensión que confunden con adrenalina al dejar esa relación, asociando la ausencia de ésta como un síntoma de aburrimiento, esto se ve reflejado cuando las mujeres dicen "Esque es muy bueno, tan bueno que me aburro".
Y estos han sido mis motivos por los cuales yo pienso que las mujeres tendemos a buscar hombres malos, una mezcla de razones que van desde mi propia experiencia siendo mujer y rodeándome de ellas ,hasta pruebas que se basan más en la historia o nuestra sociedad, sustentado por la psicología y respaldado por fuentes como:
Rocha, M. (2022, febrero 1). Chicos malos: ¿por qué las mujeres se sienten atraídas por personajes como Nate de ‘Euphoria’? Glamur. https://www.glamour.mx/articulos/chicos-malos-por-que-nos-gustan-como-nate-de-euphoria
Congost, S. (2024, enero 19). Por qué siempre te gustan los chicos “malos” y qué hacer con ellos, según una psicóloga experta en relaciones de pareja. LL. https://www.elle.com/es/living/pareja-sexo/a46450805/por-que-solo-me-gustan-los-chicos-malos-que-hacer/
Villatoro, A. (2024, marzo 5). ¿Por qué atrae lo prohibido en el amor? Martha Debayle. https://www.marthadebayle.com/especialistas/mario-guerra/por-que-atrae-lo-prohibido-en-el-amor/
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To get the % storage hemolysis sample, I centrifuged the leukoreduced pRBCs in ACD-A/AS-3 under 2,000g for 10 minutes, took the top "plasma" part and freeze it. I did this every week until week 7. Recently, I used the Drabkin's solution to measure the Hb concentration in "plasma" under 540nm using spectrophotometer (standard curve attached). However, the % hemolysis after calculation is really high (attached). It is above 1% hemolysis after day 7 and is about 7% in day 35. This is super high hemolysis compared to the literature. I repeated the experiments twice and the results were same. Does anyone possibly know what might cause this issue?
Some reasons I am thinking of are 1. Impropriate sample collection 2. Impropriate sample handling (I didn't handle the sample under sterile conditions, but no bacteria are found under microscope after 24 hours of incubation) 3. Frequent mixing 4. the hemoglobin protein I used for making standard curve was expired (opened two years ago and has three years of shelf life according to the manufacture).
For my next step, I am going to make new standard curve with the new hemoglobin I purchased. Thank you for all the help and response!
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Did you collect the blood samples from the healthy donors, and you collect the plasma from the PRBCs blood units?
What is the main purpose from the research? do you want to study the storage lesions? What about the preservative solutions?
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Why is it recommended to use heparinized or disfibrinated blood in osmotic fragility (Parpart or Dacie method)? Why not use EDTA? Which the effect of EDTA as an anticoagulant on the osmotic fragility of erythrocytes ? Can i used EDTA blood for osmotic fragility ? Thanks!
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EDTA chelates cell membrane ionized Ca++ leading to shrinkage of RBCs and may lead to influx of water molecules that may give an altered results on Osmotic fragility test.
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Image attached is at 20X. Cultured media for checking presence of bacteria and yeast and both tests were negative.
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looking like erythrocytes
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And is there any insight if DNA methylation would be impacted?
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The second question is easier, and the answer seems to be no
As for simultaneous extraction of RNA and DNA from blood, I am not aware of any convincing kits/protocols
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and especially there is no comparison/standardization of any sort. If you can, isolate RNA/DNA separately; if not, can look at the Qiagen Allprep kits and experiment with blood or isolate total nucleic acid and treat w RNAse/DNAse.
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I've requested the full text for this journal but haven't anything back. So I was just wondering if anyone know where I can download it from as it will really useful for my dissertation
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I'm looking for the exact same thing. Did you manage to gain access?
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In some paper only two injection were recommended and in other immunization for a month recommend. what will be the best option so far?
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Hello Dharmesh,
In case you are using some high throughput techniques like FACS RT-PCR two doses are enough as the sample/data has to be proceeded immediately, however in case you wants to have high concentration of antibody against the respective Ag than monthly immunization is recommended, the concept is same as booster doses.
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Anyone have experience using Stem Cell's Sepmate PBMC isolation tubes with LEUOKOPAKS (as opposed to whole blood)? Are Sepmate tubes compatible with leukopak preparations, or only with whole blood? Thanks.
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Chiming in (years after the initial convo lol) since I used SepMate extensively in my lab days and now work for STEMCELL, and we get this question all the time.
Officially, SepMate is only designed to work with whole blood and bone marrow, because the vials require a minimum packed volume of red blood cells in the pellet to keep the MNCs from getting trapped below the plastic insert. Leukapheresed blood has many fewer RBCs than whole blood, so the RBC pellet is too small.
However, unofficially, many labs do use SepMate with leukopaks, and compensate for the low RBC count by adding an extra 3 mLs of Lymphoprep/Ficoll to a 50 mL SepMate vial to keep the MNCs above the insert. You will have more mixing of the cells and density media this way, so pour on the diluted leukopak contents more slowly than you normally would. You can still spin for 10min at 1200g with brake on per the protocol. Obviously test it with your own setup (STEMCELL gives free SepMate samples) but, yes, it is a possibility.
Hope that helps any future researchers googling this question!
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I am doing total RNA extraction from PAXgene blood RNA tubes (6.9 ml of storage buffer + 2.5ml of collected blood in each tube) using the PAXgene blood RNA kit. I just want to extract the total RNA from a portion of the blood sample (around 4.5ml of the above combination) collected in PAXgene blood collection tubes. is there anyone who extracted total RNA from PAXgene blood RNA tubes? I will be glad if anyone has an answer for it.
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Yes, it is possible to extract total RNA from PAXgene blood RNA tubes using the PAXgene blood RNA kit. The PAXgene blood RNA kit is specifically designed for extracting RNA from blood samples that have been collected and stored in PAXgene blood collection tubes.
To extract total RNA from a portion of the blood sample collected in a PAXgene blood RNA tube, you will need to follow the manufacturer's instructions for using the PAXgene blood RNA kit. This typically involves the following steps:
  1. Thaw the PAXgene blood RNA tube: The first step is to thaw the PAXgene blood RNA tube. This should be done slowly at room temperature or in a water bath at 37°C.
  2. Remove the desired volume of blood: Once the PAXgene blood RNA tube is thawed, you can remove the desired volume of blood. For example, if you want to extract total RNA from a 4.5 ml portion of the blood sample, you can use a pipette to remove this volume of blood from the tube.
  3. Prepare the lysis buffer: Next, you will need to prepare the lysis buffer according to the manufacturer's instructions. The lysis buffer is used to break open the cells and release the RNA.
  4. Add the lysis buffer to the blood sample: Once the lysis buffer is prepared, you can add it to the blood sample that you removed from the PAXgene blood RNA tube. Mix the lysis buffer and the blood sample thoroughly to ensure that the cells are evenly lysed.
  5. Purify the RNA: The final step is to purify the RNA from the lysed cells using the PAXgene blood RNA kit. This typically involves a series of steps such as centrifugation, filtration, and precipitation to remove contaminants and purify the RNA.
It is worth noting that the specific procedures and reagents used in the PAXgene blood RNA kit may vary depending on the specific kit that you are using. Therefore,
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Hello,
I am looking for a protocol to differentiate dendritic cells from monocytes.
I would like to isolate monocytes from PBMCs using the EasySep™ Human Monocyte Isolation Kit (StemCell).
I found information that DC can be obtained by culturing monocytes with IL-4 and GM-CSF for several days. Various cytokine concentrations and culture times are reported in the publications. Has anyone differentiated DCs this way and has a good protocol?
Or are you using the ImmunoCult™ (StemCell) dendritic cell culture kit?
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Hi Klaudia,
My name is Sneha Balani and I am the Product Manager for Immune Cell Culture Products at STEMCELL Technologies.
I recommend using the ImmunoCult DC Culture Kit for differentiating DCs from Monocytes after isolation with EasySep. We have optimized our product to consistently provide good results while saving our customers the time of sourcing and testing individual cytokines. You can find the full protocol here: https://cdn.stemcell.com/media/files/brochure/BR27017-Dendritic_Cell_Research.pdf
I hope this helps! If you have any more questions, feel free to contact our product support specialists at techsupport@stemcell.com.
Kind regards,
Sneha Balani
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I’m trying to isolate lymphocytes from human blood using histopaque. First I added 10ml of histopaque in a 50ml falcon tube then I layer 10ml blood on top of it. The tube was centrifuged at 6000rpm for 45 minutes. I am not able to get buffy coat, im attaching the pictures of the media and blood in a falcon after 45 minutes of centrifugation. Kindly help.
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You should try to do the following.
You need to dilute the blood with equal amount of PBS. Then mix the blood and PBS gently. When erythrocytes in whole blood are aggregated, some mononuclear cells are trapped in the clumps and therefore sediment with the erythrocytes. This tendency to trap mononuclear cells is reduced when you dilute blood with PBS.
Add 14 ml histopaque at the bottom of a 50 ml tube without touching the side of the tube. Gently overlay the Histopaque with the diluted blood (20ml). Allow the diluted blood to flow down the side of the tube and pool on top of the density gradient media surface without breaking surface plane. Centrifuge at room temperature at 760 x g for 30 min with the brakes off since the deceleration can disrupt the density gradient.
Best.
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Hello, everyone. Mi name is Jorge, and I'm student in Universidad de Guanajuato in Mexico. The last weeks, I have cultured primary leukocytes in DMED with 1% of penicillin-streptomycin, and 20ug/ml of Concanavalin A; but my cells don't increase in number in 24 hours, 48 hours, or 36 hours.
I obtained the cells with Ficoll-hypaque PLUS from healthy patients, and I used P60 dishes.
I hope can you help me! :)
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You should culture leukocytes in RPMI media containing 10% FBS instead of DMEM as leukocytes will grow well in RPMI media. Leukocytes do not readily proliferate without stimulus. To induce proliferation, mitogens such as phytohemagglutinin (PHA) or lipopolysaccharide (LPS) may be added to the culture medium at a concentration of 1-5 µg/mL.
I use PHA which is widely used for the purpose of mitotic stimulation of human lymphocytes. Additionally, you may add IL-2 at a final concentration of 100 IU/ml. The cells express high affinity receptor for IL-2 and proliferate in response to this cytokine.
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Blood can be the most common type of clinical samples when it comes to bacteriological tests, diagnosis, culturing..etc from a clinical point of view, why is that?
Thank you.
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Blood is the most common clinical sample when it comes to bacteriology because in the case of septicemic disease can used for culturing and isolation of causative agent also serum can be separated from blood can be used for rapid diagnosis which give suggestive diagnosis .....etc
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I really want to know the answer.
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Monozygotic twins will have the same blood type, with a few very rare exceptions.
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Hi, I am going to start labwork for a research in a week. This requires drawing blood from patients, and then aliquotting plasma & serum into 500microlitre eppendorfs after seperation and then storing at -80 degrees celsius. (I will be using BD vacutainer plasma and serum separator tubes) However due to unavoidable circumstances (lab closing indefinitely) I will have to postpone the aliquotting part. My questions are;
a) is there any method to keep plasma and serum in those PST and SST tubes itself (refrigerated or frozen) for sometime?
b) Or is it okay to take plasma and serum into separate EDTA tubes and store frozen at -20 degrees celcius (or a higher temperature), so that i can thaw them again to aliquot later?
Really appreciate any advices..
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Fresh frozen plasma to store in approved freezers at less than -30°C. It is thawed just before use (a process which takes up to 30 minutes) and once thawed, must be infused within 24 hours if kept at 4°C (or 4 hours if kept at room temperature)
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I am looking for the best method to protect RNA in nucleated blood for downstream transcriptomics work.
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Hi,
What about plant (leaf) material?
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Why isn't the Blood Urea test referred to as the Serum Urea test like the Serum Electrolytes or Serum Creatine, et cetera tests? Why the term Blood is used?
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In the US and a few other countries, plasma or serum urea concentration is expressed as the amount of urea nitrogen. Although plasma or serum is used for the analysis, the test is still, somewhat confusingly, commonly referred to as blood urea nitrogen (BUN), and the unit of BUN concentration is mg/dL.
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Does anyone know of any companies that supply whole blood for the purpose of cell isolation that have Ethics in place AND screen the blood? Am having real problems finding a combination of the two....Thanks in advance.
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Hello Amy Holt,
Could you find a company that provided you with the blood ?
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A strong Association has been described between Blood group O and Peptic ulcer, Blood group AB and Carcinoma cervix, Blood group A and Gastric Carcinoma , Blood group B and Pemphigus and Seborrhoric Dermatitis.
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I have tried it by means of membrane feeding method (see the link), but could not get results.
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Hi, dear γδ T cell researchers!
I'm looking for how to isolate Vdelta1 and Vdelta2 cells from peripheral blood and bone marrow, without stimulation, just isolate these two subtypes separately and then cultivate them and evaluate cytokine production.
I thought of isolating the total #gdTcell population first (using Anti-panTCRγδ magnetic beads) and then try to separate these two subtypes (Vd1 and Vd2) for culture in vitro, but I don't know how to proceed. I need to evaluate these subtypes without them being stimulated/activated.
I appreciate it if anyone can help me! ;)
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You can use fluorochrome-conjugated mAbs. First dye the sample with anti-CD45, anti-CD3, anti-Vd1 and anti-Vd2. I propose to use the Miltenyi, and use a MACSQuant® Tyto® cytometer. Second, you run the sample by positively selecting the Vd1 cells and obtain the Vd1 T lymphocytes in the positive well with sufficient purity, then you recover the sample from the negative fraction and run it again in another cartridge and positively select the Vd2 T cells. in this way you obtain the two populations of interest in a viable and quite simple way.
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I collect whole blood or blood-mixed thoracic fluid (when heart blood is totally clotted) during animal postmortems and centrifuges to obtain the serum (Hemolyzed). I am planning to use these hemolyzed serum samples to detect Toxoplasma gondii Antibodies using ELISA/MAT. Is it a reliable method to detect antibody levels? Would love to know the experience if anyone has done something similar
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@tharaka liyange I determined the titer of ABO IgM and IgG anti-A and anti-B antibodies using saline tube method. When I used hemolyzed samples, the titers were usually higher than 64 and when I used unhemolyzed samples, the titers were lower. I suggest that you should preferably use unhemolyzed samples. However, if you are using ELISA to determine titer levels, I hope it won't pose a problem. And the method will be effective.
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I am currently centrifuging whole blood from a lavender top tube to separate out the plasma, buffy coat, and RBC layers. Then I use a pipette to suction off the plasma before removing the buffy coat and putting it in an Eppendorf tube. There is always lots of RBC in the sample. To get the RNA, I use the Monarch Total RNA Miniprep kit, but the 260/280 ratio is around 1.3-1.6 with 260/230 around 0.8.
Is there a better way to isolate the buffy coat and get more purified RNA?
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Dear Wei Li,
In addition to above suggestion:
1. Please use a density gradient separation medium with low endotoxin levels (such as Ficoll-Paque PLUS; density 1.077 g/mL) to separate PBMCs.
2. If feasible, use Qiagen's RNeasy Kit to isolate RNA from cells of your interest.
Hopefully, you will get the desired concentration of RNA with excellent 260/280 ratio.
Best wishes - Pradyumna
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Dear all,
I need to culture whole blood in a 37°C incubator for 24h prior to RBC lysis and analysis.
If blood is sampled in Na-Heparin tubes, i think that it is required to add additional Na Heparin to the cell culture vessel to prevent clotting during the 24h culture.
Have someone already done that ? I read somewhere that 3 IU/mL Na Heparin is enough. Do you agree ?
Thank you.
Best regards.
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If you have drawn the sample in the sodium-heparin tube then you need not to add further Na. Sodium in the tube is enough to stop coagulation.
Even if the coagulation will occur it will occur in 30-40 minutes. Check with control sample and then think of adding more Na to the tube.
Hope this is helpful.
Good luck.
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I am looking at clotting times but only have defibrinated horse blood available for use. I have a few 100mls. I am wondering if this blood is able to clot again. Would adding back fibrinogen cause the blood to clot? It is thrombin that converts the fibrinogen to fibrin so would this be needed too?
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Hi Lauren,
I would not use a defibrinated blood for a coagulation testing at all. Adding fibrinogen would not be useful, because firstly you might not now what was its original fibrinogen concentration to make it up. Even if you do, you may not be able to do the same for other coagulation factors, because during the coagulation cascade, other factors are consumed as well, such as factors II, V, VIII, X, XI, and XII. So, a defibrinated blood is really a poor sample for coagulation studies. I hope this helps.
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Would freezing the blood in Trizol enough? 
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I can't help but point out severely wrong opinions in relevant posts. 1. RBC is also functional thus has RNAs of its own. 2. Trizol of course can be and has long been used to preserve RNA after the isolation of WBC. 3. And THERE ARE circulating long RNAs (mostly encapsulated in vesicles) and small RNAs (mostly AGO2 combined) in serum/plasma.
I have to correct such misinformation. Evidence is all over PubMed.
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Sharing Personal Experience:
Wife got jabbed with Oxford Vaccine and a week later, blood clot marks started to appear on the legs. They have receded since then, but this is a much serious health concern.
Germany has already recommended for people less than 65 years old not to take the second jab. We are seriously considering if we should take the 2nd jab, since there are higher chances of developing complexities. #health #research #mentalhealth #people #healthcare #astrazenecavaccine #oxford #complexity
Seven people die from blood clots after Oxford jab in UK – but no evidence of link, regulator says (msn.com)
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Please find attached the full medical file of our patient and all biological reseaults included.
We are seeking to explain how can she produce such levels of immunoglobulins with no B cells expression.
NB ! : * The patient ddidn't recieve any immunoglobulins injection.
* We made another dosage for immunoglobulins levels after 01 moth of the first one and we had the same resault ( high levels ).
Best regards
Msc, Abdelwahab
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First thing i would like to comment on it that you may change the clone of CD20, check CD19 as well if they are even few?
Secondary, The absence B cells might be the drug effect (Like: Rituximab or any alternative/traditional medicine).
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I'm looking to assemble a goniometer for an experiment involving adhesion/roll of blood on different materials. Effectively I need to put together a stage, where the angle can be adjusted/set and measured precisely while the material is firmly secured. As well as this I will need to be able to take photographs of the roll, so the setup should allow for lights/camera.
There are several online but they are £££. Any experience creating a similar setup appreciated! Links to components would be great.
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As it turns out, I built a goniometer for roll-off angles for our lab from very cheap source materials. You start with a protractor with an adjustable arm, such as this one:
Glue (cyanoacrylate glue is good) it to a sheet of acrylic (1/8 is good) so you can mount it easily on a wall or whatever.
Then, cut a piece of sheet acrylic that is a little shorter than the arm and wide enough to hold your samples. I think ours is like 3"x2" or so. If it's too big it'll be hard to use. Glue it to the retracting arm of the protractor, being careful not to get glue on the joint or other side of the arm.
Now, get some double-sided tape to mount your samples and keep them flat. Dispense whatever droplet size of fluid you like onto the substrate, and tilt the arm+stage until the droplet rolls off. You may need a range of pipettes to run your testing:
That ought to do it; it works well enough for our lab and we develop/QC hydrophobic coatings day in and out.
Good luck!
Eric
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I used to notice in our food culture in Iraq that a person who suffers from anemia or loses blood is advised to eat celery with the spleen, and I did not know the reason until after my academic studies of plant pigments (chlorophyll) and the Similarity large between them and hemoclobin, as well as that the spleen is the cemetery of iron.
How can some customs and traditions be correct even though at the time of their spread there was no great scientific progress as is the case at the present time?
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Hemoglobin is the red pigment in blood that is capable of transporting oxygen Chlorophyll is the green pigment in plants and certain organisms that is capable of trapping the energy of the sun to enhance the process of photosynthesis.
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The sensor must be small, simple and disposable and possible to apply on a 1 mm thin catheter. It must work continuously up to one week in blood environment and be bio-compatible.
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Is there any simple device, as simple as oxymeter, to monitor co2 level in human body?
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Hi all,
I have frozen (-20C) samples of whole blood from mice from a recent experiment. I need to find a way to thaw them so as to extract sera for an ELISA, while minimizing hemolysis and hopefully preserving serum proteins.
The samples are ~300uL whole mouse blood and stored in 1.5mL Eppendorf tubes without EDTA or heparin or anything.
I thawed one tube on ice and it was VERY clear that massive hemolysis had taken place (see picture of the supernatant collected after centrifugation; 10Krpm, 10min, 4°C).
I will be sitting corner with my dunce cap if anybody needs me.
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Erythrocytes are fragile and will undergo hemolysis if frozen and thawed, as you demonstrated. If you need to freeze your samples to process them at a later time, you should let the blot clot in a glass tube, the collect and keep the supernatant (serum) frozen until needed. Now I don't know what you want to do with the blood, nor whether massive contamination with hemoglobin will impair your results. But it would be probably better to start the whole experiment once again (sorry for the mice).
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Hello everyone,
By searching the half-life of vasopressin, it appears that there are huge fluctuations between studies... Some demonstrate that, in blood, the half-life is about 2-3 min whereas other found more than 20min...
Does anyone know the "accepted" time of vasopressin half-life in blood?
Also, does anyone know the half-life within the brain?
Thank you for your help,
Sincerely,
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Thank you Gürhan for the references
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we faced the same issue and with COVID it's frustrating. As far as I know, you can only buy these reagents from them cause you have to put the Lot no. in the machine.
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I am working with erythrocytes of mice, to know the effect of Benzo alpha Pyrene on erythrocytes in vitro. Can i perform Trypan Blue exclusion assay to determine the cell viabilities?
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ok mam can you suggest any research article related to erythrocytes and trypan blue exclusion assays?
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Has anyone a protocol to successfully measure frozen whole blood with flow cytometry?
The material planned to be used is blood frozen with 10% DMSO and stored at -80°C. The aim is to thaw the blood and stain for leukocyte surface marker expression.
Before staining a lysis step is included which successfully reduces clump formation. When measuring first samples the event rate was high (reaching the limits of an BD LSRII so samples needed to be diluted strongly). The problem is that material might be sticky to block the machine.
Along the same line I ask if there are special protocols to analyse granulocytes, which are also known to be sticky.
One idea could be the use of DNAses. Has anyone experience?
Thanks a lot for your help
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David did an excellent job with deep-frozen whole blood when we shipped the entire patient's cohort in one batch for analysis. The results have been recently published
📷Original Article
Exploratory study on immune phenotypes in Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia
C. D’Angelo D. Goldeck G. Pawelec L. Gaspari A. Di Iorio R. PaganelliFirst published: 22 May 2020 https://doi.org/10.1111/ene.14360Citations: 1
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Hi,
I have some Blood sample collected in EDTA tube.
I think they were stored at 4'C more than 24 hours.
I centrifuge them at 3000rpm, 15min.
Plasma phase is not yellowish but red. I can see they are separated.
My purpose of separation is DNA extraction from PBMC(or Buffy coat) for NGS normal DNA against Tumor DNA.
I usually remove plasma, after that, I resuspend Buffy coat(PBMC?) with RBCs for maximum quantity.
Do you guys think using these samples is OK?
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Red plasma would indicate haemolysis. Proceeding of such sample would not be wise as results could be compromised.
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Some researchers have claimed that Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) can enter cells and make the environment more "alkaline" by soaking up protons. Many publications discuss only 2 nitrogen atoms that can accept a proton, however the molecule possesses 3, and therefore I would be interested to learn about the transport of HCQ, which is in the diacid form in the commercial Sulfate compound, is potentially in a triacid form in the stomach and is known to be predominantly in the diacid form in Blood at pH 7.4.
There is research demonstrating that the acid form is hydrophobic, compared to the neutral compound, which accounts for its much lower activity against Plasmodium, in which the neutral compound is lipophylic.
How many molecules of HCQ per cell have been found in clinical settings, and would this have any real impact on internal pH compared to natural buffers?
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The environment that's supposed to be made more alkaline is only the endosomal compartment, not the entire cell or body. Naturally, endosomes slowly become more acidic, on their way to becoming lysosomes. Many viruses sense this acidification, and use it as a trigger to fire their endosome escape functions and enter the cytoplasm. If this fails, the virus will likely be destroyed once the lysosomes become mature and loaded with protease & RNAse.
To prevent endosome acidification, a traditional chemical buffering system is likely not the correct mechanism. This would more likely be achieved by a specific phamacological mechanism, like interrupting membrane integrity or inhibiting a proton transporter. I have seen remarkably little work on this, and all of it only in cell culture.
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Are there alternatib=ve product for use with a Casy cell counter
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Cambridge Bioscience are the distributors of CASY ton in the UK.
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In a collaborative research program human blood will be collected by a physician in a private clinic. He has no equipment for processing the blood and isolate plasma and serum for a circulating miRs study. I need a protocol that allows him to store the blood for a short period of time.
Within 24h blood it will be shipped to a research facility and processed.
What is the best way to preserve miRNAs integrity and avoid hemolysis if the blood is collected in red and pink-top blood tube? Will the use of paxgene tubes help?
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I have the same interest and this technical issue( No equipment) except portable centrifuge. I am planning to draw venous blood from healthy participants. What have you done to get the ideal processing for microRNA stability?
Actually I have a portable centrifuge and I am going to fractionate the plasma and store it at 5 C for a maximum of 5 hrs then transfer fractions to -80.
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As an anesthesiologist and also perioperative management, is more concerned with the level of blood sugar at the time or during perioperative time. If that time level is ok, then, will it have an effect in management by knowing the last three months status (even if it was poorly controlled)?
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Thank you Dr Habib.
I work in a private facility in Nigeria and most of our surgical patients present for implant / joint /spine surgeries. We do postpone cases for non urgent / non emergent procedures with HbA1c > 8%, even when preop RBS is <200mg%. This is to reduce SSI and other postop morbidity and mortality rates. Other centres accept HbA1c between 8-9%.
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Blood type, best time, lighting condition, number of mosquitoes...
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Does statin increase blood sugar level? If yes, then by how much?
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Hello!
I would like to understand in what cases blood or some other biological liquid passes through implant or graft with some porous microstructure according the Darcy law (thanks to the pressure differences).
I have an idea to produce a research about blood permeability through various implants microstructure, but unfortunately it is harder than I thought to found some justification in literature that blood actually could pass through such microstructure due the Darcy law. Thus, I would be grateful for your help in this question - maybe you have some papers about it or some other helpful stuff.
Sincerely, Catherine
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Gamal B. Abdelaziz , at this stage I think yes, thank you. I will discuss with my colleague who has an experimental machine about further details and maybe new questions will appear.
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I am trying to figure out the best protocol for lysing neutrophils after a gradient isolation procedure from whole blood. If anyone could pass along a protocol that has worked well I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks!
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Hi Babamale, I only worked with human neutrophils so I cannot answer for mouse bone marrow. I used the same buffer for neutrophil whole cell lyses and ran on western blot without any issues.
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I am aware this is a rather odd question but I couldn’t find any answers to this in the literature. One study has used sperm cells as a drug delivery tool (see below) but I was wondering if it might have broader implications. Would sperm injected into the bloodstream survive for long? What about if it was taken orally? Would appreciate any thoughts!
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Sperm is typically prevented from exposure to blood - because even a male's own sperm is seen by their immune system as "foreign", leading to the formation of anti-sperm antibodies. This can be a problem in clinical situations such as after testicular trauma, leading to infertility.
As such, I dont think sperm delivery into the bloodstream is practical and although I dont have any specific data on it, I believe the survival of sperm in the blood stream would not be very long. The article you have linked to seems to be suggesting the utility of a sperm delivery system for anti-tumour therapy into the female genital tract (in the lumen, not via the bloodstream) to treat malignancies like endometrial cancer. I couldnt access the full text, so not sure how rigiriusly they have tested this - certainly sounds like an interesting idea!
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Hello everyone,
We have been having some trouble trying to extract DNA from human blood samples stored in a -80C freezer. The samples have been stored for over a year. We have tried using the Qiagen DNAEasy Blood and Tissue Kit and the Qiagen QIAamp Blood Mini Kit. We have looked at our sample both with Nanodrop (usually between 2-7 ng/uL) and Qubit. Quantities are extremely low every time, sometimes not even reading on the Qubit. Quality is also not good (260/280 about 1.5 and 260/230 is less than 1). Does anyone have any tips about this, including trying a new protocol or tweaking the current protocols?
Thankyou!
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I agree with Steve Hawkins that phenol chloroform is excellent and also proteinaseK followed by salting out with ethanol precipitation worked well on many thousands of samples in my lab over many years
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I need some help with this issue.
Anyone have arranged protocol?
I understand that the first step is the separation of plasma from WBC+RBC and after extraction DNA and qPCR, but it's still unclear for me how I can detect only the mt-DNA without comparing to nuclear DNA...
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Hey there,
I'm using commercially available Drabkin's reagent to measure the hemoglobin content of blood photometrically. The reagent I bought contains sodium bicarbonate, potassium ferricyanide and potassium cyanide. In my understanding, all different forms of hemoglobin (except sulfhemoglobin) are converted to methhemoglobin by potassium ferricyanide in a first step which reacts then with potassium cyanide to cyanomethemoglobin which shows a significant absorbance at 540 nm.
But sometimes I see a second peak around 575 nm (indicated by the red arrow in the graphic), sometimes very weak but sometimes also very strong and I wonder what it could be. Could this be some remainings due to uncomplete reaction or could it maybe be due to poor quality of the sample?
Thank you for your advice!
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Oxy-Hemoglobin typically has peaks at 541 and 576 nm. Because these peaks are still present in the spectra you showed, your sample likely still has some amount of unreacted hemoglobin which will impact your results. Typically this lack of complete reaction is caused by 2 factors:
  1. Insufficient Drabkins reagent
  2. Not enough time for the reaction to reach completion.
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Other than the blood culture test is it suitable to do test for blood agar test for identification of blood infection? 
What about the test for Procalcitonin or C-reactive protein test. Will this test confirm the infection in blood.?
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Determining whether a patient has a microbial infection is a common clinical challenge. Sepsis is a case in point where clinical signs may be confused with causes other than infection, such as trauma. In this issue of EBioMedicine, Cartwright et al. describe a rapid blood test to discriminate between patients with microbial infections and those with sterile trauma . This is a ground-breaking and much-needed development.
Cartwright M. A broad-spectrum infection diagnostic that detects pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) in whole blood. EBioMedicine. 2016 ( http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352396416302584) [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
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Most blood media use sheep blood as standard enrichment agent. I understand that rabbit blood, heart infusions can be used in its stead in some cases so why is it the standard blood for enrichment?
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The DIFCO and BBL Manual is an excellent resource for a huge variety of microbiological culture media, and it is available free online here: https://www.trios.cz/wp-content/uploads/sites/149/2016/08/DIFCO-A-BBL-MANUAL-2.pdf
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I'm trying to do a DNA/RNA immunoprecipitation (DRIP) using the S9.6 antibody and am getting no DNA pull down. I isolate DNA from cultured cells using the Qiagen DNeasy Blood & Tissue Kit and then proceed with the DRIP as outlined by either -
or
Trying both protocols, I have failed to pull down any DNA. Do you think the Qiagen DNeasy Blood & Tissue Kit could be destroying my R-loops? Does anyone have a protocol that works well?
Thanks!
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Could you perhaps share your experience with S9.6 antibody? I am considering to apply it for my research.
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I'm working with 200uL whole blood samples and want to add sodium fluoride / potassium oxalate to inhibit glycolysis and coagulation.
I've been looking through some literature trying to find what proportion of NaF/KOx to add per mL of whole blood, but can't find a specific value. I know premade vacutainer tubes have a specific amount of NaF/KOx for glucose measurements, but I can't find how much is generally used.
So: what proportion of NaF/KOx should I add to a whole blood sample?
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Fluoride-citrate is better than fluoride-oxalate
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where can i order serum samples of cancer patients who undergone single course of chemo for research purposes?
Is there any tissue banks that provide such samples?
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The best way is design and write a project with your hypothesis and concrete objectives, and present it to a medical department in a hospital in order to find out if they could be interested in your research. In the case they are interested, you could suggest them a collaboration to perform the study and share the results in the future papers.
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How we extract fibrin from blood?(Technology)
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Could you please advise me how to remove fibrin and fibrinogen from blood to have blood sample which is completely free from both components?
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Hi Community,
I would like to perform experiments with healthy PBMC. The thing about PBMC is, apparently, that they don't really proliferate if you don't add some growth factors. And buying one vial of PBMC is easily 100-200 USD, which you don't wanna spend on a single experiment.
I need cells at a final concentration of 1e5 cells/mL. If I buy 10 million cells, I could in principle aliquot like 20 vials, each containing 5e5 cells or so.
So my question is: Can I thaw cells that I buy from a supplier, transfer them in medium, and then aliquot them into individual vials (in DMSO and FBS or so) and freeze again -- or will this result in a (negligible/massive) loss of cells?
Are there other ways to do this? What happens if I add growth factors? Could I in principle proliferate PBMC over several passage numbers by adding growth factors? I am especially interested in the T-cells, which I think should not adhere to the culture flask.
Thanks for your help!
Georg
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If you buy 1 vial of 10 million cells from a supplier, you can recover up to 8 million cells depending on your thawing protocol. Although not recommended, you could try to refreeze them but you need to put at least 4 million cells/vial to have a decent recovery the next time around. Trying to culture PBMCs so you have a substantial yield is also not a good idea as it might affect your experimental objectives/setup (like Andrei S. Babenka mentioned).
Try obtaining a leukopak/whole blood and then isolate PBMCs yourself. Leukopaks can give you >1000 million PBMCs. You could freeze 100s of vials (@10 million/vial) and use them at your pace. The only drawback is that all these cells would be from a single donor. If you would rather have multiple donors, get whole blood samples and a 50-100 mL draw should last you a while (average 1 million cells from 1 mL of whole blood). Many life science suppliers sell these and these options are more cost effective than buying pre-processed PBMCs (unless you are looking for specific PBMC types). PBMC isolation is pretty easy and you can find protocols online.
If you only need a few cells here and there and want to save a few hundred dollars, there is an alternative option. Many University associated laboratories that work with human PBMCs have IRB approvals in place to collect blood from healthy human donors. You could ask if they would share samples with you.
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Does anyone know first-hand or know of a recorded observation as to what hemocyanin (the oxygen-binding molecule in the blood of most arthropods and mollusks) smells/tastes like? I know that hemocyanin is copper-based, but in some respects does not resemble copper visually (blue of green) due to the surrounding molecule. I know that vertebrate blood is often described as having a coppery taste despite being iron-based, so I was wondering what hemocyanin would taste like. Does it taste anything like the taste of crab, squid, or other hemocyanin-using organisms?
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Hello, similar topic well discussed here.
Good luck!
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Hi all,
I am extracting DNA from blood, and due to waiting for buffer solutions to arrive, the blood samples appear to have dried in their plates. Some were clotted, so have had EDTA added to them also. There is 20ul in each sample. They have been in a 4 degree fridge for the last week, and the necessary buffers should arrive any day. I would just like to know if anyone has had something similar, or if there's anything I need to do next? I will be using the DNEasy 96 QIAGEN kit - the blood samples are currently in the well-plates.
Many thanks
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Using filter paper you can resuspended in PBS buffer samples of dried blood to extract DNA
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I am about to collect exosomes from human blood. Is it best to use serum or plasma? should I expect differences in exosomes content?
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Regarding exosomes using serum or plasma both is ok. Because we didn't find any significant differences between both of them.
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Could anyone help me find the best composition for cell lysis solution for manual DNA extraction using blood as the source? I want to prepare the solution in house. Does anyone have experience preparing it?
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I am using following protocol for a long time. It is really useful.
  1. First you need to prepare your cells. Use a buffer containing
  • 10 mM Tris-HCI
  • 320 mM Sucrose (adding sucrose after autoclave is a way better.)
  • 5 mM MgCI2
  • and distilled water.
  • Adjust the pH to 8.0 with 40% NaOH .
  • Autoclave and add triton X-100 (10 ml for 1 L buffer). Store at 4o C.
Add this buffer onto your blood sample. ( You can use 20 ml for 1-2 ml blood sample.)
Shake at RT for a while (4 min is enough) and centrifuge for 10 min at 3000 rpm.
Discard supernatant and resuspend the cell pellet in 10 ml of this buffer. Shake. Centrifuge. (same parameters). Discard supernatant.
2. Then you can lyse your cells
Prepare a buffer containing
  • 400 mM Tris-HCL
  • 0.5 M EDTA
  • 150 mM NaCI
  • and distilled water.
  • Adjust the pH to 8.0 with 40% NaOH.
  • Autoclave and add 1% SDS (You can store this at RT.)
  • Add 1 ml of this buffer to your cell pellet. Vortex. Resuspend the pellet.
  • Add sodium perchlorate (250-500 ul) and shake (app. 10 min. at RT)
  • Incubate for 20-25 min at 65 oC and quickly vortex every 5 min.
Then, you will be able to extract your DNA.
Best,
Elmas
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I am doing an experiment using human erythrocytes and it was collected from consenting volunteers. Does it need the human ethics committee approval?
Please give me suggestions.
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Yes we have to follow the normal standard procedure for blood collection, consent, storage Use and discard following ethical code and approval.
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I want to isolate Monocytes from Thrombus, I don't know if it's possible, or if it's suitable to disintegrate the thrombus by aspirating up/down with a pipette then to isolate by Ficoll just like the classical protocol.
Any suggestion is needed :)
Thank you!
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agree with@ Steingrimur Stefansson
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Researches claimed that this blood is more efficient for medical use than blood collected from donors. Patients with rare blood types will benefit the most.
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The term "Artificial blood" is a misnomers and can't be prepared in laboratory. There is a limitation of stem cells culture in vitro and component in whole blood is much more complex.
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I was wondering if the dialysis system has some sort of sensor to detect the right fluid inserted.
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Surely the new technologies for the treatment of water for dialysis and the sterility of the system have drastically reduced the episodes of fever on dialysis. The use of the jugular vein for the insertion of central venous catheters, the use of tunneled catheters and the nursing techniques of aseptic line connection contributed to the drastic decrease of sepsis .Each dialysis center pursues its own strategy with ad hoc protocols. The use of high-or low-concentration citrate for the final filling of central venous catheters. The use of chlorhexidine instead of Betadine for the disinfection of the skin also for the insertion of the fistula needles. All strategies that require lengthy discussions, but above all a widespread conviction of the staff all: doctors and nurses.
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  • If a person carries a blood group A resists disease, more than the person that carries a blood group B carries.
  • A blood type (also called a blood group) is a classification of blood based on the presence and absence of antibodies and also based on the presence or absence of inherited antigenic substances on the surface of red blood cells (RBCs). These antigens may be proteins, carbohydrates, glycoproteins, or glycolipids, depending on the blood group system. Some of these antigens are also present on the surface of other types of cells of various tissues. Several of these red blood cell surface antigens can stem from one allele (or an alternative version of a gene) and collectively form a blood group system. Blood types are inherited and represent contributions from both parents. A total of 35 human blood group systems are now recognized by the International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT). The two most important ones are ABO and the RhD antigen; they determine someone's blood type (A, B, AB and O, with +, − or Null denoting RhD status).
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Dear Dr. Ali F Almehemdi
Blood types help us to fight diseases and tell us what major disease epidemics a given population suffered in its recent history, (e.g. in the last thousand years). For example, most native Americans belong to group O. It is believed that this is due to a syphilis epidemic and that the O type were better at fighting off the disease. Group A and B make people more resistant to cholera, while AB confers the most resistance. O offers virtually no immunity against cholera. B confers weaker protection against plague. This is probably why B is more common in North-East Europe, which was virtually unaffected by the Black Death during the Middle Ages.
A-type carriers are the most likely to survive plague, but suffer from a higher rate of heart disease, because their blood is more likely to clot. They are also at increased risk of contracting smallpox and developing cancer of the esophagus, pancreas, and stomach. Type O, contrarily to A, is slightly protective against cardiovascular problems. It also boosts resistance against tuberculosis, but increases the risk of venous thromboembolism and developing duodenal and peptic ulcers. It also attracts more mosquitoes (through which malaria is transmitted). A recent study revealed that people with type O blood are less likely to get pancreatic cancer, but also stomach, breast, ovarian and cervical cancer.
The ABO blood group system isn't the only antigen system found in humans. There are about 30 human blood type systems: Rhesus, Kell, Diego, Duffy, Kidd, and so on. Each have a role in immunity. Some are found only in some specific populations and completely absent elsewhere. This is the case of Diego antigens, found only (at low frequency) among Mongolic people and Amerindians.
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It is for detection of PI3, HSV and possible New Castle.
I know you can use Chicken, human (O), Rabbit and guniea pig.
Is it possible to use horse or sheep?
Thanks!
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yes Hamster Rodent is most idial
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There are many methods for a drug to be used, such as oral methods (pills), anal methods, injections, etc. But when a new drug invented, how do scientists choose the best way to insert it into the body? how they decide to convert the drug to pills or injections or any other types?
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There are a variety of reasons that a given drug administration route is taken, among which are:
  • Physical and chemical properties of the drug. The physical properties being solid, liquid, and gas. The chemical properties primarily being solubility, stability, pH, irritancy, etc.
  • Site of desired action: the action may be localised and approachable or generalised and not approachable.
  • Rate of extent of absorption of the drug from different routes.
  • Effect of digestive juices and the first phase of metabolism.
  • Condition of the patient.
There are other factors too--often a drug can be given in multiple forms, and then it can come down to cost or patient comfort (for example, someone may prefer a daily pill to going in for an injection daily). The other factor in how a drug is commercialized is the form in which it was tested in animals. You will have a harder time getting a pill approved if all your in vivo tests are with tail vein injections, for example. But if your in vivo experiments involved an ingested oral dose, getting a pill approved is easier.
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Hi everyone. We want to do an IHC in peripheral blood smear but it's our first time, and we have some doubts.
How do we have to fix the samples? Which is the best fixation agent, acetone, methanol or pfa? for how many time? Can we add the primary antibody directly after the fixation?
We need some tips.
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I think (and I'm sure, for practicing it) that doing an IHC on a blood smear is not a good idea. Because the red blood cell is full of endogenous peroxidases and other parasitic enzymes that are very difficult to remove with H2O2 for example. The IFI would be more judicious. For fixation, the use of cold acetone on cells stuck by centrifugation is very useful because it allows the use of all antibodies capable of labeling a cell surface, intracytoplasmic or intranuclear. To label lymphocytes in IHC it is therefore preferable to work on purified lymphocytes on ficoll gradient. But beware of the residual GRs;
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We tested a potential anti-cancer treatment in balb/c mice injected with 4T1 cells (25 animals). We collected blood initially, at D7, D14, D21 and D28; We also collected supernatant of spleen cells placed for 24 hr in the incubator at the time of euthanasia. Very little is known about the mechanism of this treatment.
We looked at the expression of 25 cytokines using 25-plex assay; I now need to analyze the data with very little knowledge in immunology, and a lot of variation between samples.
Do you know of a good tool that can integrate data considering multiple cytokines to identify mechanism/ pathway? Or do you have any recommendations/advice?
Thank you!
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Thank you Shen-An. I am in the process of educating myself, reading published literature. Tedious, but necessary!
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Do G6PD deficiency harmfull for all cells? Why we only talk about rbc when it comes to G6PD deficiency?
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They are less affected as they have a "mitochondrial source" of NADPH (from malic enzyme and isocitrate dehydrogenase activities) which RBC have not.
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We have some frozen blood in -20 freezer. They are there for about 1-2 months. Now I need to isolate WBCs. Does anyone know of an experiment I can use? I need them for DNA extraction.
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In the end, is there a good protocol for obtain leukocytes from frozen blood? I know that I can obtain the DNA, but is it possible to obtain leukocytes for WB experiments?
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I would like to perform force spectroscopy on RBC using AFM. For this purpose I need 50ul of blood which would be diluted further in RPMI or PBS at pH7.4. In literature I see that disodium or dipotassium EDTA is used as anticoagulant. But we have only plane EDTA (EDS, Sigma) in powder form and 0.5M EDTA (Promega) in liquid form in our lab without sodium or potassium. Please let me know if they make any difference to the sample in terms of durability and morphology.
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It is not necessary to use EDTA in such experiments. Just coat the pipette tip with heparin solution before blood collecting, it will be enough.
Good luck!
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I am working in remote areas away from laboratory services. It takes hours to get the samples to the laboratory. Most blood parameters start to change as soon as the blood samples are taken from the animals. Is there a means that can used to preserve samples and retain the true values of the blood parameters? Thank you
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I am looking for opinions on whether I should go for a Hemacytometer or KOVA slides for eosinophile counts?
I am looking at crocodile blood and need it to be both fairly quick and fairly accurate.
Also, if anyone has a link to their preferred piece of equpiment, that wold be great
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Any standard flowcytometer instrument use for humans should do it. Sysmex, advia, coulter is most common. Take tke samples to your local hospital and talk eith the lab. See https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2ceb/bbf8230a08b64b2e4a345a628642e4eaaabe.pdf
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Nelson Somogyii method is generally used for the assessment of glucose level in blood. Can it be used for estimation of glucose in tissues also? Does the protocol vary for the estimation in blood and in tissues?
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Nelson Somogyi analyses all reducing sugars; so you should first make sure that glucose is the only sugar likely to be present in your tissues. Not for example another monosaccharide such as galactose, or any reducing oligomers (maltose etc)
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I am trying to find a reasonably quick answer for this so that I can better understand some experimental data that I got. The broad idea is that platelets can get activated throughout the normal flow of coagulation cascade events, and down the line, the more pro coagulant the 'condition', the higher the levels of TATs (Thrombin-antithrombin complexes) (detected by ELISA in plasma for instance) will be. But in my case, I am interested to know what happens if platelet activation is induced by an external factor? does it necessarily have to translate into a similar elevation in TATs?
Please if you have a clear explanation, kindly share.
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Any change in blood matrix might fold F12 into F12a or prekallikrein into kallikrein. Kallikrein directly activates prothrombin to thrombin, a potent platelet activator. TAT might be formed but TAT is a poor marker for in vivo thrombin generation, here amidolytic thrombin activity (thrombin entrapped in alpha2-macroglobulin) is much better because TAT levels "jump", i.e. there might be sudden unexplainable increases or decreases, amidolytic thrombin activity does not "jump".
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Ferrozine (disodium 3-(2-pyridyl)-5,6-bis(4-phenyl sulphonate)-1,2,4-triazine) is a water-soluble Fe(II) chelator. When chelated to iron, the complex absorbs light at 562 nm (molar absorption coefficient = 27,900). Copper can also be bound by ferrozine, however copper binds more strongly to another chelating agent, neocuproine.
          Iron can be released from protein through oxidation with acid-permanganate (1 hours at 60oC). Excess permanganate and released iron can then be reduced with ascorbate (RT for 30 min). Released iron must be kept at a pH of 4.5 – 5.0 for it to remain soluble. Acid-permanganate is an equal mixture of 1.2 M HCl and 0.285 M KMnO4
       Given that the Mr of haemoglobin is 68000 and that for serum albumin is 66000, calculate the number of molecules of iron per molecule of protein.  Use the known textbook value for the amount of iron in haemoglobin to calculate the purity of your sample.
Hint: a sensible strategy might be to start by constructing a calibration curve for the reaction of ferrozine with iron. Assays will need to use a control protein (non-Fe containing) for reference.
Another hint: A ratio of 1:5:10 would be appropriate for reagent B: acid-permanganate: sample.
Materials provided:
Haemoglobin (1.5 mg/ml)
Bovine serum albumin (5 mg/ml)
Ferrous ammonium sulphate (anhydrous?)
1.2 M HCl
4.5 % (w/v) (0.285 M) KMnO4
Reagent B containing:            6.5 mM Ferrozine
                                                13.1 mM neocuproine
                                                2 M ascorbic acid
                                                            5 M ammonium acetate.
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does anyone have this protocol?
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  • A person who has a lot of bleeding needs to have blood.
  • Can one person's blood be used directly and immediately as a source of blood supply? and if so, what requirements should be considered?
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  • As a Transfusion specialist , my answer is yes but it is not a good transfusion practice. Firstly donor should be fit for donation of blood , for the safety of recipient donor should also free from transfusion transmitted infections and donor is of identical ABO & Rh blood group
  • Than you can give vein to vein transfusion. Person receiving blood at low level, so blood flow from higher to lower level by gravity .
  • but don't try that ,it is my advice
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"Better" means "more stable." After the induction, we hope the hematocrit between different mice (in similar ages) will be as similar as possible.
We have tried phlebotomy from retro-orbital venous plexus( 0.5mL/B6 8wks old mice), but the Hct level between different mice after phlebotomy seem not very consistent.
I have read some paper and found many researchers using phlebotomy to induce anemia, but can't decide which one is better to meet my purpose.
Does anyone know which is the more stable way to induce anemia? Phlebotomy or phenylhydrazine(PHZ)?
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Dear Chang, phenylhydrazine(PHZ) is better to induce anaemia under research.
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I am looking at using a synthetic blood for research and it needs to dry at a similar rate and have a similar tackiness to actual blood. Does anyone know of a recipe for this?
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A blood substitute (also called artificial blood or blood surrogate) is a substance used to mimic and fulfill some functions of biological blood. The main categories of 'oxygen-carrying' blood substitutes being pursued are hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers (HBOC) and perfluorocarbon-based oxygen carriers (PFBOC).
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Does anyone know of a method that can reliably deplete all hemoglobin-bound and free oxygen content of the blood ex vivo? I need to create a sample of oxygen free blood in a sampling tube or syringe. It does not need to be "life compatible", since it will not come into contact with a living system again, however it is necessary that all oxygen content is removed.
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Try to use Carbonmonixide or any other substance that dispalces teh oxygen from the hemoglobin.
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I feel that chroidal layer thickness could be one parameter for ganglion cell vibiliy as it is the main source blood supply. In the same way ganglion cell layer count/thickness would also reflect the total effectivity or viability of ganglion cell layer.
If there is a feasibilitry of these two factors what areas of retina would be most suitable to take the measurements ?
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Additionally, when we take of ganglion cell layer count/thickness or RNFL thickness, we must not forget about the " Floor effect" ( these cellular layers won't get thin beyond a point) and that could impair the interpretation in a patient withe severe glaucoma.
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I am hoping to get a description of RBC micronutrient as I'm not clear what the term means.
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Yes, I agree with you. The minerals iron and copper are pivotal in making healthy red blood cells. Iron makes up the active part of heme; the iron molecule in each heme group directly binds to and carries oxygen.
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We are currently trying to standardise the assessment of haemodialysis extracorporeal blood circuits and filters when evaluating the correct dose of LMWH (fragmin) for haemodialysis patients. I am looking for a standardised assessment tool to score the level of clot formation in the above mentioned circuit and filter when haemodialysis is complete.
Does anyone know of an existing assessment tool?
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Johnny Hooper
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Hi Albert,
Many thanks for your very comprehensive answer to my question.
With warm regards,
Johnny Hooper
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Hi everyone, I want to investigate the expression of two genes (GPR120 and PPAR-γ) that are expressed in PBMCs. Now I want to know that column method-mediated RNA extraction from peripheral (venous) blood is appropriate method for my work or not? Which method is better? Is the Ficoll method more suitable for my work?
Is it possible to not answer by venous blood method because I did not answer from this method?
Is it necessary to isolate the PBMCs by Ficoll for these two genes (GPR120 and PPAR-γ)?
Please guide me.
Thank you.
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Hi Ramin,
Isolation from whole venous blood will typically yield circulating plasma/serum RNA (extracellular) in addition to intracellular RNA (from PBMCS). By RNA-sequencing, have found that the vast majority of RNA during venous blood sequencing is indeed intracellular (from PBMC and granulocytes, in addition to some RBC precursors and megakaryocytic)
It's important to note the Ficoll step generally removes a significant amount of granulocytes from the PBMC cells, as these are denser -- whereas granulocyte-derived RNA will remain in whole blood preparations. If the subject is human, the majority of cells in venous blood will be neutrophil granulocytes, which may contribute significantly to the RNA pool of those proteins if they are expressed by neutrophils. I'm unsure about GPR120, but neutrophils do express PPAR-y.
To summarize, it really depends on the cell populations you're most interested in -- venous blood will contain some contamination from circulating RNA, but yields the best overall picture of all leukocyte populations. PBMCs will be most restricted to lymphocytes and monocytes-type cells, but will less contamination from circulating RNA.
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I would like to know whether it is possible to establish blood outgrowth endothelial cells (BOECs) from frozen buffy coats. Most protocols describe only fresh blood preparations.
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When cells are frozen without protection, most of the time cells will become fractions after thawing.
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Aside from Iron in blood, what are the magnetic materials in human body?
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Although mostly about dielectric properties, the book
Dielectric and Electronic Properties of Biological Materials Hardcover –
by Ronald R. Pethig
has additional information.
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Need a topic to study on RNA from human blood where i can utilise QIAamp RNA Blood MINI KIT?
This may sound a bit strange but I am looking for a good study topic where i can utilize Qiagen Qiaamp RNA Blood Mini Kit for some good use.
Hello Everyone
The thing is i am working in a district government hospital as a Microbiologist. Here along with routine sample analysis we are also developing a molecular microbiology lab where we are developing protocol for identification of human pathogens and detecting drug resistance. We have a QIAGEN QIAcube, Rotor Gene Q, QIAxpert, Serum HPLC and PCR at our disposal.
Now during our initial setup we had asked QIAGEN to provide all the necessary kit which would be required by our lab. That's where they provided us with 4 Boxes, 50 reaction each of Qiagen Qiaamp RNA Blood Mini Kit. We are not sure where to put good use of it. We are still not studying human blood RNA. We do study viral RNA but for that we use QIAamp Viral RNA mini kit.
Now since we have this RNA Blood kit, we are planning to use it for some useful purpose which would help further development of our laboratory. We have an attached pathology lab where we can get blood sample for any disorder.
So i need help from you on suggesting me based on your experience
a) a topic which i can look upon or
b) a target RNA in human blood for disorder/Cancer or
c) Any Viral RNA which can be recovered by Qiagen Qiaamp RNA Blood Mini Kit from blood or
d) Any other suggestion
by which i can utilize RNA Blood Mini Kit
Limitation: I am looking for a single or may be just 2 RNA target to study. We have Reverse transcriptase kit and Q-PCR at our disposal. We can also purchase primer for a any target CDNA. Designing a single probe for Q-PCR is possible but i don't have budget for multiprobe study. If the target gene could be studied by SYBR green kit than that would be great.
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Limitation: I am looking for a single or may be just 2 RNA target to study. We have Reverse transcriptase kit and Q-PCR at our disposal. We can also purchase primer for a any target CDNA. Design probe for Q-PCR is possible but i don't have budget for multiprobe study. If the target gene could be studied by SYBR green kit than that would be great.
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Hi Mustafa,
First, you need to select the disease based on the sample availability. And then the second step will be to identify the gene targets for RNA experiments, this can be done in silico using the publicly available gene expression datasets (however this requires bioinformatic skills). Other way to narrow down to the targets may be to find out some good publication (literature survey) which have identified novel target genes for the particular disease but the experimental validation is yet to be done on human samples and use these target genes for your RNA experiments after acknowledging that particular article.
Hope this helps.
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Hello, I collect blood in gel & clot activator tube for serum separation and I want to extract DNA from clot but unable to separate blood clot from gel as the blood clot lies at the bottom of the tube and is covered with the gel. Please suggest me the method for the separation.
Thanks in advance for all the assistance in this regard!!
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i collect through cardiac puncture but blood get hemolysied and plasma hemoglobin level increase to 14g/dl
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To draw blood from mice with a good amount and quality (no hemolysis and platelet activation or clot) really depends on your skills. IVC will be the best route to get good amount blood (~ 1 ml/22-25 g mouse), but you need practice and some tricks. Good luck!
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Is it 10hour or 12hrs time period for finding exact blood sugar level and evaluating lipid profile.
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For fasting blood glucose 8- 10 hrs are suitable. For Lipid Profile you need 12 - 14 hrs are recommended. Its important to clarify that Total cholesterol does not need fasting, In addition, you can calculate LDL-C by Friedewald Equation ( [LDL-chol] = [Total chol] - [HDL-chol] - ([TG]/2.2) where all concentrations are given in mmol/L (note that if calculated using all concentrations in mg/dL then the equation is [LDL-chol] = [Total chol] - [HDL-chol] - ([TG]/5))
The Friedewald equation should not be used under the following circumstances: . fasting, is mandatory for teiglycerides analysis.
  • when chylomicrons are present
  • when plasma triglyceride concentration. exceeds 400 mg/dL (4.52 mmol/L)
  • in patients with dysbetalipoproteinemia
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Do you do researches on the diagnose of Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (VCJD (prion disease) in human?
I mean if you can diagnose this disease or if you know any Institution or colleague of yours who deals with the diangnose of this disease, which you can recommend?
We have sampled blood as well as CSF (cerebrospinal fluid) from the patient. No brain tissue was biopsy, as patient is alive.
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You can ask Stephane Haîk or Jean-Philippe Brandel from yje French national network on CJD. stephane.haik@icm-institute.org the ( jean-philippe.brandel@aphp.fr)
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Can anyone please recommend an immunohistochemical stain for human blood? I have porcine blood vessels containing thrombi made from human blood and I need to differentiate the human thrombi from static, coagulated porcine blood.
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MD Ulf kessler can answer this question. Check this out:
As you see his paper is spot on.
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Immunoreactive trypsinogen (IRT) levels can be obtained from the blood as well as serum. I wonder how stable is IRT in -20 and -80 storage, for how long serum can be stored at this temperatures, how freezing-thawing cycles can influence IRT levels.
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Hi, Lilianna Bakinowska
How long serum can be stored in -20 and -80
at -20 -3 month
a -40 -1 years ( Frozen Temp.)
at -80 =3 years ( Cryo Temp,)
at -173 = 9 years ( Liquid Nitrogen)
at -273 - Unlimited ( Absolute Zero)
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I'm trying to develop a proposal to investigate the genome of a wild bird species. Since these birds are very fragile and active, very hard to catch. So I'm considering some non invasive DNA collection methods. My intention is to sequence their whole genome and I'm wondering that DNA extracted from naturally shed feathers are going to fulfill that or not. If somebody know this will be OK or any other methods to sequence whole genome apart from DNA from blood (in birds), please keep me posted.
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Thilina
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I think you should also consider what whole genome sequence can tell you in comparison to for example mitochondrial genome or ribosomal RNA sequence. I am thinking you may get "more bang for your buck" by sequencing the mitochondrial genomes of feathers from many individuals of the species than the complete cellular genome of one individual. How many other complete genomes of related species are available? What will the cost be of assembly and annotation of the genome? I have seen many bacterial "complete genome" projects end up as several hundred modest sized contigs rather than a finished chromosome, and with the annotation leaving much to be desired.
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1. Is there a need to monitor blood levels of clozapine and it's metabolite when the doses are low and no serious adverse effects are occurring?
2. If there are consensus guidelines on TDM for clozapine I cannot find them. Please point me in the right direction.
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A review of the clinical utility of serum clozapine and norclozapine levels
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Am working on ways of reducing the toxicity of Amphotericin B without affecting the bioavailability.
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Hello Obed!
May be these works could help you:
Determination of amphotericin B in human plasma using solid-phase extraction and high-performance liquid chromatography.
Eldem T, et al. J Pharm Biomed Anal. 2001.
Determination of amphotericin B, liposomal amphotericin B, and amphotericin B colloidal dispersion in plasma by high-performance liquid chromatography.
Egger P, et al. J Chromatogr B Biomed Sci Appl. 2001.High-performance liquid chromatographic determination of amphotericin B in a liposomal pharmaceutical product and validation of the assay.Eldem T, et al. J Chromatogr Sci. 2000.High-performance liquid chromatographic determination of amphotericin B in plasma and tissue. Application to pharmacokinetic and tissue distribution studies in rats.Echevarría I, et al. J Chromatogr A. 1998.Determination of amphotericin B in human serum by liquid chromatography.Lopez-Galera R, et al. J Chromatogr B Biomed Appl. 1995.High-performance liquid chromatography of HIV protease inhibitors in human biological matrices.
Review article
Aarnoutse RE, et al. J Chromatogr B Biomed Sci Appl. 2001.
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Liliana