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Glovebox and Impurity Sensors
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2023
Source: Tamara M. Powers, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University The glovebox provides a straightforward means to handle air- and moisture-sensitive solids and liquids. The glovebox is what it sounds like: a box with gloves attached to one or more sides, which allows the user to perform manipulations within the glovebox under an inert atmosphere. For manipulations under inert atmospheres, chemists can choose between Schlenk or high-vacuum techniques and a glovebox. Schlenk and...
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Bacterial Detection & Identification Using Electrochemical Sensors
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2013
We describe an electrochemical sensor assay method for rapid bacterial detection and identification. The assay involves a sensor array functionalized with DNA oligonucleotide capture probes for ribosomal RNA (rRNA) species-specific sequences. Sandwich hybridization of target rRNA with the capture probe and a horseradish peroxidase-linked DNA oligonucleotide detector probe produces a measurable amperometric current.
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Glutamine Flux Imaging Using Genetically Encoded Sensors
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2014
This article will demonstrate how to monitor glutamine dynamics in live cells using FRET. Genetically encoded sensors allow real-time monitoring of biological molecules at a subcellular resolution. Experimental design, technical details of the experimental settings, and considerations for post-experimental analyses will be discussed for genetically encoded glutamine sensors.
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An Aptamer-based Sensor for Unchelated Gadolinium(III)
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2017
The use of polydeoxynucleotide (44-mer aptamer) molecules for sensing unchelated gadolinium(III) ion in an aqueous solution is described. The presence of the ion is detected via an increase in the fluorescence emission of the sensor.
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Receptor Autoradiography Protocol for the Localized Visualization of Angiotensin II Receptors
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2016
Here we present a protocol to describe the localization of angiotensin II Type 1 receptors in the rat brain by quantitative, densitometric, in vitro receptor autoradiography using an iodine-125 labeled analog of angiotensin II.
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They perform sensory transduction by changing their activity when conditions such as light, pressure, temperature, chemicals, or tissue damage vary. That change can alter membrane potential, the electrical state across a cell membrane, or activate intracellular signaling pathways within the cell. These mechanisms translate a stimulus into information that cellular and neural networks can process.
Different sensor receptors are tuned to different forms of environmental or internal change. A receptor responding to light may operate through a different signaling route from one responding to pressure, temperature, chemicals, or tissue damage. This stimulus-specific organization allows biological systems to encode distinct conditions and generate responses suited to the detected change.
Signals generated at receptors can travel through neural or cellular networks, extending the effect of detection across the organism. Depending on the pathway, the resulting response may involve perception, a reflex, hormonal regulation, or a behavioral change. Receptor signaling therefore links a local molecular or membrane event with coordinated physiological and behavioral outcomes.
By detecting changes in the internal environment as well as the external surroundings, sensor receptors provide information needed for regulatory responses. Their signals can contribute to hormonal regulation and other cellular or neural actions that help organisms respond to changing conditions. This connection makes receptor activity relevant to how biological systems monitor and adjust their state.
Studying these receptors helps researchers connect stimulus detection, sensory transduction, and downstream signaling with changes in perception or other responses. When receptor processes do not function normally, the affected signaling pathways may help explain sensory disorders. This research provides biological context for investigating how altered detection and signal processing contribute to disease-related effects.
Their position at the start of pathways that connect environmental or internal changes to cellular responses makes sensor receptors important in receptor-targeting disease research. Examining how they detect stimuli and activate membrane or intracellular signals can clarify disease mechanisms and support efforts to develop treatments directed at abnormal sensory or receptor-related processes.