Optimization of the Transwell® assay for the analysis of neutrophil chemotaxis using flow cytometry to refine the clinical investigation of immunodeficient patients.

Chemotaxis is the directed movement of neutrophils towards an infected site. This physiological process can be reproduced using a modified Boyden chamber, such as the Transwell® support. Different techniques can be used to count neutrophils after migration to the lower chamber of the holder.

Design, development, and validation of an in-situ biosensor array for metabolite monitoring of cell cultures.

Conventional pharmaceutical processes involving cell culture growth are generally taken under control with expensive and long laboratory tests performed by direct sampling to evaluate quality. This traditional and well-established approach is just partially adequate in providing information about cell state. Electrochemical enzyme-based biosensors offer several advantages towards this application.

New approaches for carbon nanotubes-based biosensors and their application to cell culture monitoring.

Amperometric biosensors are complex systems and they require a combination of technologies for their development. The aim of the present work is to propose a new approach in order to develop nanostructured biosensors for the real-time detection of multiple metabolites in cell culture flasks. The fabrication of five Au working electrodes onto silicon substrate is achieved with CMOS compatible microtechnology.

Highly sensitive carbon nanotube-based sensing for lactate and glucose monitoring in cell culture.

Monitoring of metabolic compounds in cell cultures can provide real-time information of cell line status. This is particularly important in those lines not fully known, as the case of embryonic and mesenchymal cells. On the other hand, such approach can pave the way to fully automated systems for growing cell cultures, when integrated in Petri dishes.

[Compared efficacies of somes antispasmodic drugs on the digestive tract and the bladder of the anesthetized dog (author's transl)].

The antispasmodic activity of tiemonium, mebeverine, pitofenone + fenpiverinium association and N-butyl scopolammonium was compared in the anesthetized dog. Strain gauges were fixed on the gastric antro-fundic border, on the pylorus, on the descending duodenum and on the terminal colon. Pressure transducers were connected with water filled small balloons inserted into the gall bladder and the bladder.