March 2013 News

  Neuromics

March 2013 News

Tested, Characterized and Research Ready

Cell/Tissue/Live Animal Assays

My recent newletters have focused on optimizing your cell based assays. This month, would like to also focus on the solutions we have for live animal (in vitro) sudies using our transfection kits for gene expression analysis and our FLIVOTM LIVE! Kits for apoptosis. We will soon have SPIO Labeled hMSCs for Live Cell Migration Studies.

This month we feature our NIR Kits. The are priced to make it easy to buy & try.
Featured Promos/New Products

 

Tumor Detection

Detecting Apoptosis in Tumors-Images: In Vivo Apoptosis Detection: Tumors within living mouse models show high apoptosis levels with NIR-FLIVO 747 after receiving an experimental treatment to induce cell death.

Osteoblasts

Images: (A) Mature osteoblasts stained positive for Alizarin red with numerous areas of associated mineralized matrix. Phase contrast image at 200 x. (B) FITC image of mature osteoblast. Most individual cells of the osteoblast are fluorescent, indicating efficient transfer of FITC from MSCs to osteoblasts during differentiation.

More Promos

Publications Highlights
Delivering siRNA in vivo and in vitro

Researchers use i-FectTM  to Study BDNF Silencing in Mice-Brain injury that results in an initial behavioural deficit is frequently followed by spontaneous recovery. The intrinsic mechanism of this functional recovery has never been fully understood. Here, we show that reorganization of the corticospinal tract induced by target-derived brain-derived neurotrophic factor is crucial for spontaneous recovery of motor function following brain injury:  Masaki Ueno, Yasufumi Hayano1, Hiroshi Nakagawa and Toshihide Yamashita. Intraspinal rewiring of the corticospinal tract requires target-derived brain-derived neurotrophic factor and compensates lost function after brain injury. Brain (2012) doi: 10.1093/brain/aws053. ... motor cortex at 14 days after the injury, using i-Fect™ transfection reagents (Neuromics) according to the manufacture's instruction .

Christoforos Tsantoulas, Lan Zhu, Yasin Shaifta, John Grist, Jeremy P. T. Ward, Ramin Raouf, Gregory J. Michael, and Stephen B. McMahon. Sensory Neuron Downregulation of the Kv9.1 Potassium Channel Subunit Mediates Neuropathic Pain following Nerve Injury. The Journal of Neuroscience, 28 November 2012, 32(48): 17502-17513; doi: 10.1523/​JNEUROSCI.3561-12.2012....In vivo RNA interference: Anesthetized rats were subjected to a thoracic laminectomy and a silastic tube was inserted subdurally to lie just rostral to L3 DRG and externalized to deliver bolus injections (one injection per day for 4 consecutive days). Animals were allowed to recover for 5 d before treatment commenced. On the day of injection, siRNA was mixed with i-Fect (Neuromics) to a final concentration of 0.2 μg μl−1, according to published protocols (Luo et al., 2005). For each treatment, 10–20 μl of Kv9.1 siRNA or scrambled control mixture was injected, followed by a 10 μl saline flush. Twenty-four hours after the fourth injection animals were killed and L5 DRGs fresh dissected for qRT-PCR analysis. A separate set of animals were PFA perfused and DRGs retrieved for IHC. Passenger strand sequences for Kv9.1 and scrambled control siRNAs were cuuggaaucuguaggauca and gaggcctaatcgatatgtt, respectively (Dharmacon; "in vivo processing" option)...

Check out our transfection methods blog.

Here's to new and exciting discoveries.

Pete Shuster-CEO and Owner/direct phone: 612-801-1007
pshuster@neuromics.com