Title: A biological method for the quantitative measurement of tetrodotoxin (TTX): Tissue culture bioassay in combination with a water-soluble tetrazolium salt
Abstract: K. Hamasaki, K. Kogure and K. Ohwada. A biological method for the quantitative measurement of tetrodotoxin (TTX): tissue culture bioassay in combination with a water-soluble tetrazolium salt. Toxicon 34, 490–495, 1996.—A tissue culture bioassay, using the mouse neuroblastoma cell line (Neuro2A), was improved to provide a simple and sensitive bioassay for TTX or sodium channel-blocking toxins (SCB). The water-soluble tetrazolium salt, 2-(4-iodophenyl)-3-(4-nitrophenyl)-5-(2,4-disulfophenyl)-2H-tetrazolium, monosodium salt (WST-1), was applied to replace the time-consuming and subjective cell-counting procedure of the cells with automatic measurement, using a microplate reader. It was also confirmed that this method is directly applicable to bacterial culture supernatants, with the precaution of possible interference.
Publication Year: 1996
Publication Date: 1996-04-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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