Showing posts with label Caspases. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Caspases. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

FLICA™ in vitro Caspase Kits for Apoptosis Assays

Great solution for measuring neurotoxicity

Here's a recent pub confirming the capabilities of our FLICA™ in vitro Caspase Apoptosis Detection Kits: Minghai Zhou, Gregory Ottenberg, Gian Franco Sferrazza, and Corinne Ida Lasmézas Highly neurotoxic monomeric α-helical prion protein. PNAS 2012 109 (8) 3113-3118; published ahead of print February 7, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1118090109. ...PFA and stained for caspases using FLICA polycaspase assay (Neuromics) according to the manufacturer's instructions. Caspases...assayed on live cells using the caspase- specific FLICA assay (Neuromics). Cells were photographed using a Nikon inverted epifluorescence...

Images: FLICA was used to assess cell death in primay rat hippocampal neurons.Cells were plated on 25-mm poly-l-lysine-coated coverslips at 300,000 cells per coverslip. Cells were used at 4 or 8 days in vitro. Composite imagae (A) 3 out of 4 cells are apoptotic (green). No cells were necrotic as both of the PI-positive cells were FLICA-positive; they had compromised membranes and were probably in the late stages of apoptosis rather than necrosis. (B) 3 Caspase-positive cells fluoresce green.

I would like to underscore that we have solutions to cover most your needs for Apoptosis and Cytoxicity Assays. I will continue to post updates on customer data and publications.

Thursday, May 07, 2009

Detecting Apoptosis in Real Time

Kudos to Drs. Aaron Thomas and Carol Erickson for their novel use of our Magic Red™ Real Time! Apptosis Kits. Here's the related publication:

Aaron J. Thomas and Carol A. Erickson. FOXD3 regulates the lineage switch between neural crest-derived glial cells and pigment cells by repressing MITF through a non-canonical mechanism. Development, Apr 2009; doi:10.1242/dev.031989.
...Apoptosis was assayed using Magic Red Caspases 3&7 reagent (Neuromics)...

Related Reagents:
FLIVO™ Polycaspase Live!, in vivo Apoptosis Kits-New
FLICA™ in vitro Caspase Kits
Fast!-Use Caspase kits to quantitate apoptosis via active caspases in whole, living cells. These kits do not use ELISA or any antibodies for detection
FLISP™ Serine Protease Detection Kits
Measure chymotrypsin-like proteaseactivation in whole living cells.
MitoPT™ Kits
Quantitate mitochondrial functionality and apoptosis
Apoptosis Research Antibodies
Apoptosis Research Proteins