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Drawing Blood from Rats through the Saphenous Vein and by Cardiac Puncture
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2007
Blood draws are necessary in a large number of studies, for example to study the pharmacokinetics profile of a compound. Here, we demonstrate how to draw blood from rats using two techniques: blood draw from the saphenous vein or by cardiac puncture.
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Motor Learning in Mirror Drawing
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2023
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University Colloquially, the terms learning and memory encompass a broad range of behaviors and mental systems, everything from learning to tie a shoe to mastering calculus (and a lot in between). Experimental psychologists have divided up learning mechanisms into groups that seem to have different properties, and that seem to rely on different brain systems. A major division is between declarative and non-declarative memory, roughly, the...
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Fabricating Metamaterials Using the Fiber Drawing Method
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2012
Metamaterials at terahertz frequencies offer unique opportunities, but are challenging to fabricate in bulk. We adapt the fabrication procedure for microstructured polymer optical fibers to inexpensively fabricate metamaterials potentially on an industrial scale. We produce polymethylmethacrylate fibers containing ~10 μm diameter indium wires separated by ~100 μm, which exhibit a terahertz plasmonic response.
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Preparation of Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cell Pellets and Plasma from a Single Blood Draw at Clinical Trial Sites for Biomarker Analysis
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2021
This protocol details clinically implementable preparation of high quality PBMC and plasma biosamples at the clinical trial site that can be used for translational biomarker analysis.
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Drawing Free-body Diagrams: Rules
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2023
The first step in describing and analyzing most phenomena in physics involves the careful drawing of a free-body diagram. Free-body diagrams are useful in analyzing forces acting on an object or system, and are employed extensively in the study and application of Newton's laws of motion. The steps to draw a free-body diagram are listed below: • Draw the object under consideration. If treating the object as a particle, represent the object as a point. Place this point at the origin of a...
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Blood enters a syringe or evacuated tube because a pressure difference drives flow from the vessel into the collection container. The collection device therefore affects how the sample is obtained, while the labeled container preserves the link between the specimen and the person or experiment. This mechanism supports consistent collection for subsequent laboratory analysis.
Additives determine which sample properties remain suitable for analysis. Anticoagulants prevent clotting when investigators need a particular nonclotted sample type, whereas a container without that requirement may serve a different purpose. Selecting the appropriate additive is important because it preserves the material needed to measure cells, proteins, metabolites, hormones, or genetic material.
Specimen quality depends on more than successful needle entry. Appropriate site selection, effective skin antisepsis, careful tube handling, and collection of adequate volume all help maintain a usable sample. These factors matter because laboratory measurements are performed on the collected material; poor control at collection can limit the reliability or range of analyses that follow.
During a blood draw, the collector selects an appropriate site, applies skin antisepsis, and introduces a sterile needle into the vessel. Blood then moves into a syringe or evacuated tube, after which the specimen is placed in a labeled container and handled appropriately. Collecting adequate volume helps ensure enough material remains for the intended laboratory or research measurements.
Blood draws are useful whenever investigators need biological measurements from a sample that reflects current physiology or disease-related processes. In clinical assessment and research, the resulting material can support analysis of cells, proteins, metabolites, hormones, or genetic material. The same approach also enables comparisons involving treatment responses and variation in biomarkers.
Interpretation of blood-based results depends on matching the specimen to the measurement being studied. Cells, proteins, metabolites, hormones, and genetic material represent different biological information, so the selected sample type and its preservation matter. In biology research, this allows investigators to relate measured biomarkers to physiology, disease processes, or treatment response rather than treating all blood samples as interchangeable.