Protocol used to study secretion of proteins and prostaglandins by endometrium from the cow, ewe, mare, bitch and other species. The technique is also useful for culture of peri-implantation conceptuses and placental tissues for metabolic labelling studies and to obtain conceptus secretory proteins for biological studies.The medium used is called Pig MEM, which is a modified minimum essential medium supplemented with non-essential amino acids, vitamins, insulin and additional glucose. - [Read Culture of Endometrial Explants and Peri-implantation Conceptuses to Monitor Synthesis and Secretion]
Primer design, Primer annealing, Primer labelling, Probe purification, In vitro hybridization DNA-protein Binding reaction. Jonathan Flint. - [Read EMSA Protocol using 32-p.]
Expression of F-tryptophan labelled protein. Protocol can be adapted for Fluoro-phenylalanine or Fluro-tyrosine labelling. Transformation of competent E. coli cells for expression with plasmid. Dr. Chen, Dept. of Biochem. & Mol. Biology, University College, London. - [Read Expression of F-tryptophan labelled protein]
DNA microarrays are an ordered arrangement of DNA molecules complementary to genes of interest that are "spotted" by robotic equipment onto a glass slide substrate. The expression of genes in cells can be monitored with microarrays by preparing cDNA from the mRNA of cells of interest and measuring the hybridization to the microarray. This protocol describes the labeling of genomic DNA for use as a probe for hybridization to the cDNA spotted on the array.