J Immunol Methods
March 2014
EU Directive 2010/63/EU regarding the protection of experimental animals came into force in November 2010 with an obligation for EU member states to incorporate its requirements into their respective national legislations by 1st of January 2013. The directive stipulates the application of in vitro methods to replace animal experiments whenever such an in vitro method exits and is recognized by EU legislation. The monocyte activation test (MAT) for the detection and quantification of pyrogenic contamination in medicines is recognized by the European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & Health Care (EDQM) and was published in the European Pharmacopeia (Pharm.
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November 2010
Phosphoinositides (PIs) play fundamental roles as signalling molecules in numerous cellular processes. Direct analysis of PIs is typically accomplished by metabolic labelling with (3)H-inositol or inorganic (32)P followed by deacylation, ion-exchange chromatography and flow scintillation detection. This analysis is laborious, time-consuming, and involves massive amounts of radioactivity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF(E,Z)-3-(3',5'-Dimethoxy-4'-hydroxy-benzylidene)-2-indolinone (indolinone) is an alkaloid that has been identified as a pharmacologically active compound in extracts of the traditional anti-inflammatory herb Isatis tinctoria. Indolinone has been shown to inhibit compound 48/80-induced mast cell degranulation in vitro. Application of indolinone to bone marrow derived mast cells showed that it was uniformly distributed in the cytoplasm and that cellular uptake was terminated within minutes.
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