The amido black assay: a simple and quantitative multipurpose test of adhesion, proliferation, and cytotoxicity in microplate cultures of keratinocytes (HaCaT) and other cell types growing adherently or in suspension.

A new multipurpose cell micro-assay has been developed, using the protein dye amido black 10B as an indicator of cell numbers in 96-well plates. The assay is reliable, rapidly performed and can be combined with morphological evaluation and photography of stained cells. It permits investigations of various cell types including the human keratinocyte line HaCaT and subclones, mouse 3T3 fibroblasts and myeloma cells X63-Ag8.

[SDS electrophoretic evaluation of salivary protein adsorption to different dental materials].

After different pretreatments of surface the alloys Sipal, Gisadent KCM 83 and Gisadent NCA and the PMME resin Kallocryl A were contaminated with mixed saliva for 1.5 hours. Thereafter, the proteins which could not washed off with water were desorbed from the materials by using a dodecyl sulphate-containing buffer, and analyzed SDS electrophoretically and densitometrically.