Marburg and Ebola hemorrhagic fevers have been described as the most virulent viral diseases known to man due to associative lethality rates of up to 90%. Death…
Continue ReadingHuman wharton’s jelly cells-isolation and characterization in different growth conditions
The enzyme solution with tissue is taken out and put in the stomacher strainer bags with inner tissue filter at the rate of 25 ml…
Continue ReadingOptimization of Periprosthetic Culture for Diagnosis of Propionibacterium acnes Prosthetic Joint Infection
Tissue specimens were homogenized in 3 ml of sterile saline using a Seward Stomacher 80, and the sterility of each vial of saline was confirmed at the…
Continue ReadingRegulation of breast cancer stem cell activity by signaling through the notch 4 receptor
The Stomacher® 80 was used to blend solid tumors for 12 minutes. Notch receptor signaling pathways play an important role not only in normal breast…
Continue ReadingFaecal unconjugated bile acids in patients with colorectal cancer or polyps
The pooled samples were homogenised for 20 minutes in five times the faecal weight of cold water using a Stomacher® 3500.This study lends further support to the theory that…
Continue ReadingNew Real-Time Quantitative PCR Procedure for Quantification of Bifidobacteria in Human Fecal Samples.
Stomacher® 400 used to prepare faeces samples for comparative study of fluorescent in situ hybridization and the current gold standard for intestinal microbiota quantification. In…
Continue ReadingEnhanced Immunogenicity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Vaccination with an Alphavirus Plasmid Replicon Expressing Antigen 85A
The Stomacher® 80 was used to blend lungs and spleens of sacrificed animals. The study found that even with the optimum dose of the vaccine…
Continue ReadingDevelopment and Validation of a Quantitative Real-Time PCR Assay Using Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer Technology for Detection of Aspergillus fumigatus in Experimental Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis
Lung tissue in each individual rabbit was sampled and cultured by excision of a representative region of the lung. Each fragment was weighed individually, placed in sterile…
Continue ReadingGenotoxic activity in human faecal water and the role of bile acids: a study using the alkaline comet assay
Faecal samples were collected and kept on ice before processing. Samples were homogenized in a stomacher for 2 minutes in a Stomacher® 400.The results of…
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