Monday, June 30, 2008

Combined Neuron Cultures Assays

We would like to thank Dr. Matteo Porotto, Weill Cornell Medical College

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Primary rat neurons: Transfection of functional HeV glycoproteins and infection with HeV pseudotyped virions.In order to establish the feasibility of carrying out the proposed experiments in primary neurons, we show (figure ) that our assays are amenable to use in primary neurons. In the experiment, Combined Hippocampus, Cortex, and Ventricular -E18 (Neuromics) were plated, and at 3 days were transfected with plasmids encoding HeV G/F as well as YFP. On the following day, these cells were infected with HeV or VSV pseudotyped viruses bearing RFP. In the figure, (A) the phase contrast photos show the differentiated neurons; (B) upon excitation for RFP, the red fluorescence indicates neurons infected by HeV pseudotyped virions; (C) upon excitation for YFP, and the green fluorescence shows the efficiency of transfection in neurons. This experiment indicates that the proposed experiments can be carried out in primary neurons, which are transfectable and infectable in our systems, and thus supports all the proposed aims. Data Courtesy of Dr. Matteo Porotto, Weill Cornell Medical College

Primary Neuron Cultures Featured
Combined Hippocampus, Cortex, and Ventricular -E18
Other Reagents to Consider
All Primary Neurons/Astrocytes, Stem Cells and Media
Transfection Reagents
Neuron-Glial Markers
Stem Cell Markers

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Amped Up ORL-1

We have been collaborating with a customer to amp up our ORL-1. Here's an example of a resulting IHC images.

Image: ORL 1 staining in rat brain (singulate cortex). ORL1 Detection was done using anti-rabbit Cy3 conjugated antibodies (red color). DAPI was used to counterstain cell nuclei (blue color). Working dilution is 1:40-1:100.

Wednesday, June 04, 2008

TRPV1 Pub

Katrin Schnizler, Leonid P. Shutov, Michael J. Van Kanegan, Michelle A. Merrill, Blake Nichols, G. Stanley McKnight, Stefan Strack, Johannes W. Hell, and Yuriy M. Usachev. Protein Kinase A Anchoring via AKAP150 Is Essential for TRPV1 Modulation by Forskolin and Prostaglandin E2 in Mouse Sensory Neurons. J. Neurosci., May 2008; 28: 4904 - 4917 ; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0233-08.2008

......anti-TRPV1 antibody (catalog #RA14113; Neuromics, Edina, MN) and 30 mul of prewashed protein-A...mm NaCl). Probing was done using the Neuromics anti-TRPV1 antibody (1:500 dilution...with other TRPV1 antibodies either from Neuromics (N-terminus rabbit anti-TRPV1) or from......