Q: I ordered a targeted toxin. Will it come in powder form? How do I re-dissolve it? A: Our Saporin conjugate products are all provided in sterile PBS solution within a concentration range of 0.5 – 3 mg/ml. Saporin is an extremely safe ‘toxin’ to handle in standard laboratory environments when in solution for several […]
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Wu Y, Song S, Liu H, Xing D, Wang X, Fei Y, Li G, Zhang C, Li Y, Zhang L (2015) Role of adrenomedullin in the cerebrospinal fluid-contacting nucleus in the modulation of immobilization stress. Neuropeptides 51:43-54. doi: 10.1016/j.npep.2015.03.007 Summary: The CSF-contacting nucleus (CSF-CN) is a brain structure containing neurons that can bidirectionally transmit signals
Custom Biotinylation, when the “one-step-kit” doesn’t quite meet your needs. Proteins come in all shapes and sizes and don’t always contain a ready-to-conjugate binding site. This and other variables can cause you to look toward one-step kits, often leaving you with un-purified and un-verified conjugate. Let the experts in the field help provide you with
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Q: I’m interested in your anti-DBH-saporin toxin for lesioning central catecholaminergic neurons. I see from the product description that the antibody used is a mouse monoclonal – designed to specifically target rat DBH. My interest is to produce targeted lesions in mouse transgenic. Will this product still work specifically? Thanks. A: Unfortunately, we do not
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Peters C, Hayashida K, Suto T, Houle T, Aschenbrenner C, Martin T, Eisenach J (2015) Individual differences in acute pain-induced endogenous analgesia predict time to resolution of postoperative pain in the rat. Anesthesiology 122:895-907. doi: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000000593 Summary: The authors investigated the relationship between preoperative Conditioned Pain Modulation (CPM) and the time course of recovery from
Sato M, Watanabe S (2015) Featured Article: Drug-free selection of stable transfectants using targeted toxin technology and a vector expressing cell-surface carbohydrate-digesting enzyme. Targeting Trends 16(2) Related Products: IB4-SAP (Cat. #IT-10) Read the featured article in Targeting Trends. See Also: Sato M et al. A combination of targeted toxin technology and the piggyBac-mediated gene transfer
by Masahiro Sato1 (Ph. D.) and Satoshi Watanabe2 (Ph. D.) 1Section of Gene Expression Regulation, Frontier Science Research Center, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima 890-8544, Japan: 2Animal Genome Research Unit, Division of Animal Science, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Ibaraki 305-8602, Japan Isolation of stable transfectants is one of the important steps for exploring biological functions of
Mittelman-Smith M, Krajewski-Hall S, McMullen N, Rance N (2015) Neurokinin 3 receptor-expressing neurons in the median preoptic nucleus modulate heat-dissipation effectors in the female rat. Endocrinology 156:2552-2562. doi: 10.1210/en.2014-1974 Summary: Kisspeptin and Neurokinin B (NKB) expression in the infundibular, or arcuate, nucleus is increased after menopause. Here the authors investigate whether KNDy (kisspeptin, NKB, and
Dashniani M, Burjanadze M, Naneishvili T, Chkhikvishvili N, Beselia G, Kruashvili L, Pochkhidze N, Chighladze M (2015) Exploratory behavior and recognition memory in medial septal electrolytic, neuro- and immunotoxic lesioned rats. Physiol Res 64:755-767. doi: 10.33549/physiolres.932809 Summary: To investigate recognition memory that incorporates a spatial or temporal component, the authors lesioned the medial septum of