A real time Metridia luciferase based non-invasive reporter assay of mammalian cell viability and cytotoxicity via the β-actin promoter and enhancer

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Lupold, Shawn E ^a   Johnson, Tamara ^a   Chowdhury, Wasim H ^a   Rodriguez, Ronald ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; LUCIFERASE; METRIDIA LUCIFERASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; TETRAZOLIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ACTIN; ARTHROPOD PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ASSAY; CELL VIABILITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE VESSEL; CYTOTOXICITY; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MAMMAL CELL; MITOCHONDRION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; REDUCTION; REPORTER GENE; SERUM; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE TUMOR; ANIMAL; BIOASSAY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CELL SURVIVAL; COPEPOD; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NUDE MOUSE; TUMOR CELL LINE; XENOGRAFT;

COPEPODA; MAMMALIA; METRIDIA LUCIFERASE; MUS;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL SURVIVAL; COPEPODA; GENES, REPORTER; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; LUCIFERASES; MALE; MICE; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 84860735196     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036535     Document Type: Article

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