Automated Parallel Oocyte Electrophysiology Test Station (POETs™): A Screening Platform for Identification of Ligand-Gated Ion Channel Modulators

Assay and Drug Development Technologies

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 655-663

  Shieh, Char Chang ^a   Trumbull, Jonathan D ^a   Sarthy, Jay F ^a   Mckenna, David G ^a   Parihar, Ashutosh S ^a   Zhang, xu Feng ^a   Faltynek, Connie R ^a   Gopalakrishnan, Murali ^a  

^a ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL; LIGAND;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CHANNEL GATING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SCREENING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROELECTRODE; OOCYTE; PATCH CLAMP; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROBOTICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELLS, CULTURED; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; ION CHANNEL GATING; ION CHANNELS; LIGANDS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICROELECTRODES; OOCYTES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROBOTICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 1942465539     PISSN: 1540658X     EISSN: 15578127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/154065803770381011     Document Type: Article

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