An overview of technical considerations for Western blotting applications to physiological research

JJ Bass, DJ Wilkinson, D Rankin… - … journal of medicine …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The applications of Western/immunoblotting (WB) techniques have reached multiple layers
of the scientific community and are now considered routine procedures in the field of …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic approach to quantitative Western blot analysis

L Pillai-Kastoori, AR Schutz-Geschwender… - Analytical …, 2020 - Elsevier
Attaining true quantitative data from WB requires that all the players involved in the
procedure are quality controlled including the user. Appropriate protein extraction method …

The necessity of and strategies for improving confidence in the accuracy of western blots

R Ghosh, JE Gilda, AV Gomes - Expert review of proteomics, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Western blotting is one of the most commonly used laboratory techniques for identifying
proteins and semi-quantifying protein amounts; however, several recent findings suggest …

Tubulin or not tubulin: heading toward total protein staining as loading control in western blots

CP Moritz - Proteomics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Western blotting is an analytical method widely used for detecting and (semi‐) quantifying
specific proteins in given samples. Western blots are continuously applied and developed …

[HTML][HTML] Stain-free detection as loading control alternative to Ponceau and housekeeping protein immunodetection in Western blotting

B Rivero-Gutiérrez, A Anzola, O Martínez-Augustin… - Analytical …, 2014 - Elsevier
It is currently a routine practice to require a measurement of a housekeeping reference,
including actin, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, β-tubulin, among others, in …

Early life stress perturbs the maturation of microglia in the developing hippocampus

JC Delpech, L Wei, J Hao, X Yu, C Madore… - Brain, behavior, and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Children exposed to abuse or neglect show abnormal hippocampal development and
similar findings have been reported in rodent models. Using brief daily separation (BDS), a …

[HTML][HTML] Comparing the effects of low-protein and high-carbohydrate diets and caloric restriction on brain aging in mice

D Wahl, SM Solon-Biet, QP Wang, JA Wali, T Pulpitel… - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
Calorie restriction (CR) increases lifespan and improves brain health in mice. Ad libitum low-
protein, high-carbohydrate (LPHC) diets also extend lifespan, but it is not known whether …

Amygdala hyper-connectivity in a mouse model of unpredictable early life stress

FK Johnson, JC Delpech, GJ Thompson, L Wei… - Translational …, 2018 - nature.com
Childhood maltreatment is associated with a wide range of psychopathologies including
anxiety that emerge in childhood and in many cases persist in adulthood. Increased …

Western blotting: a powerful staple in scientific and biomedical research

H Begum, P Murugesan, AD Tangutur - Biotechniques, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Western blotting (WB), also known as immunoblotting, is a well-known molecular biology
method that biologists often use to investigate many features of the protein, ranging from …

In vivo translatome profiling in spinal muscular atrophy reveals a role for SMN protein in ribosome biology

P Bernabo, T Tebaldi, EJN Groen, FM Lane… - Cell reports, 2017 - cell.com
Genetic alterations impacting ubiquitously expressed proteins involved in RNA metabolism
often result in neurodegenerative conditions, with increasing evidence suggesting that …