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Thermosensation
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2025
Peripheral thermosensation is the perception of external temperature. A change in temperature (on the surface of the skin and other tissues) is detected by a family of temperature-sensitive ion channels called Transient Receptor Potential, or TRP, receptors. These receptors are located on free nerve endings. Those detecting cold temperatures are closer to the surface of the skin than the nerve endings detecting warmth. These thermoTRP channels, while temperature selective, have relatively...
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Conducting Elevated Temperature Normal and Combined Pressure-Shear Plate Impact Experiments Via a Breech-end Sabot Heater System
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2018
Here, we present a detailed protocol of a new approach for conducting elevated temperature reverse normal plate impact, and combined pressure-and-shear plate impact. The approach involves the use of a breech-end resistive coil heater to heat a sample held at the front-end of a heat-resistant sabot to the desired temperature.
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Jet Impinging on an Inclined Plate
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2023
Source: Ricardo Mejia-Alvarez and Hussam Hikmat Jabbar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI The goal of this experiment is to demonstrate how a fluid flow exerts forces on structures by conversion of dynamic pressure into static pressure. To this end, we will make a plane jet impinge on a flat plate and will measure the resulting pressure distribution along the plate. The resultant force will be estimated by integrating the product between the...
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Serial Dilutions and Plating: Microbial Enumeration
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2023
Source: Jonathan F. Blaize1, Elizabeth Suter1, and Christopher P. Corbo1 1 Department of Biological Sciences, Wagner College, 1 Campus Road, Staten Island NY, 10301 Quantitative assessment of prokaryotes can be onerous given their abundance, propensity for exponential proliferation, species diversity within a population, and specific physiological needs. Compounding this challenge, is the four-phase nature in which bacteria replicate (lag, log, stationary and death). The ability to accurately...
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Aseptic Laboratory Techniques: Plating Methods
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2012
When working with media and reagents used to culture microorganisms, aseptic technique must be practiced to ensure contamination is minimized. A variety of plating methods are routinely used to isolate, propagate, or enumerate bacteria and phage, all of which incorporate procedures that maintain the sterility of experimental materials.
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An electrically heated plate transfers heat directly to a specimen, solution, or culture vessel by conduction. A thermostat or feedback controller measures and regulates the surface temperature, reducing fluctuations during the experiment. This combination allows researchers to maintain a more stable thermal environment than relying on uncontrolled laboratory conditions, supporting consistent treatment of temperature-sensitive biological materials.
Even when the intended temperature remains constant, fluctuations can alter the condition of embryos, tissues, or cells and influence developmental timing, signaling, gene expression, and viability. A stable heated surface limits these changes, making it easier to attribute observed developmental effects to the experimental treatment rather than to inconsistent thermal conditions.
Conduction transfers heat from the electrically heated plate into the vessel or material resting on its temperature-controlled surface. This direct pathway supports warming of solutions, specimens, and culture vessels without relying on a surrounding air temperature. In developmental biology, the approach helps maintain the thermal conditions required for sensitive samples and reagents during experimental handling.
By maintaining a regulated surface temperature, the device reduces variation in the thermal conditions experienced by samples across an experiment. More consistent exposure helps researchers compare embryos, tissues, cells, or reagents under similar conditions. This is particularly useful when evaluating how environmental temperature affects developmental outcomes, because temperature becomes a controlled experimental variable rather than an uncontrolled source of variation.
The heated surface can warm specimens, solutions, and culture vessels, including materials used with embryos, tissues, cells, or temperature-sensitive reagents. The relevant choice depends on what the experiment requires to remain thermally stable. Maintaining these materials at a controlled surface temperature can support viability and preserve conditions needed for developmental procedures and observations.
Researchers can use the regulated surface to provide defined thermal conditions while working with developing specimens or biological materials. Stable heating supports experiments that examine relationships between temperature and developmental timing, signaling, gene expression, or viability. Because the thermal environment is more reproducible, differences between experimental conditions can be interpreted with greater confidence.