“The cell culture media is a composition of nutrients like amino acids, carbohydrates, vitamins and other ingredients essential for the growth of cells in vitro.” Culture allows scientists to learn more about cells and related things! The cell culture is an aseptic condition to isolate cells followed by growing them artificially, in vitro processes using …
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The R banding is reverse banding or reverse Giemsa banding used to stain the regions of GC, a complement to G bands. We are exploring varied chromosome banding techniques that are used for various clinical investigations and other applications. So far we have discussed, GTG banding, FQF banding, C banding, NOR banding and T banding. …
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M-Bands or M Banding is a high-resolution chromosome banding technique that finds cryptic chromosomal rearrangements such as inversion, translocation, deletion or duplication at the chromosome level. Banding techniques have a significant role in cytogenetics especially in karyotyping. The whole cytogenetic studies are conducted around chromosomes and to encounter chromosomal anomalies. Many techniques and improvements over …
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NOR banding or nucleolar organizing region banding technique stains acrocentric chromosomes efficiently such as 13, 14, 15, 21 and 22. Banding techniques are specialized procedures of chemical treatment and staining using various stains in order to study chromosomes. So far on this blog, we have explained many different banding techniques like GTG banding, QFQ banding, …
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“Isochromosome occurs by two common events simultaneously duplication of entire one arm and loss of another one. It causes various chromosomal aberrations. On this website, we are covering interesting articles especially focusing on cytogenetic, karyotyping, chromosomes and related abnormalities. Our cytogenetic expert team collects and shares every piece of information possibly present or not. We …
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“The C banding or C bands is a technique utilized in karyotyping which stains especially the centromeric region, stronger than other regions.” Do you know? The centromere region of chromosomes is a repetitive DNA region, condensed and the non-active region. It distinguished two arms from each other. Centromere helps in the separation of chromosomes or …
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“The Q banding or quinacrine banding technique in which the fluorescence dye quinacrine binds or intercalates with the DNA and gives different banding patterns on chromosomes.” The technique is also known as QFQ banding- Q-bands using fluorescence quinacrine and was first explained by Caspersson and co-workers. Related article: 20 Common karyotyping (or Chromosomal) Abnormalities. What …
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“The t banding or t bands is a technique utilized in karyotyping which stains especially the telomeric region, stronger than other regions.” Karyotyping is a technique employed to study chromosomes include steps such as sample collection, cell culture, cell harvesting, microscopy and results analysis. Diploid human cells have 23 pairs of chromosomes, revealed through karyotyping. …
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