X-Nico

unusual facts about cell culture


Rhabdastrella globostellata

globostellata has been shown to produce a wide variety of isomalabaricanes, a type of triterpene molecules with notable cytotoxic activity towards certain cancer cell lines.


Infectious pancreatic necrosis

Diagnostic methods for the detection of the disease include: characteristic histological pancreatic lesion, PCR, indirect fluorescent antibody testing, ELISA, and virus culture.

Jean-Pierre Lecocq

Under his leadership secretory and non-secretory expression systems for the production of recombinant proteins in E. coli, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Baculovirus and mammalian cells in cell culture were developed and recombinant virus technology was established.

KOSR

KOSR, knockout serum replacement, is a defined serum-free formulation optimized to grow and maintain undifferentiated embryonic stem cells in culture.

Tetrazole

This tetrazole is used in the MTT assay to quantify the respiratory activity of live cells in cell culture, although it generally kills the cells in the process.


see also

C3orf58

Experiments in a rat neuronal cell culture model suggested that this gene may be regulated directly or indirectly by MEF2 site binding proteins.

Clioquinol

Research at UCSF indicates that clioquinol appears to block the genetic action of Huntington's disease in mice and in cell culture.

Tenofovir

In 1993 Erik De Clercq and other researchers at the Rega Institute for Medical Research described the activity of tenofovir against HIV in cell culture.