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The alamarBlue® cell proliferation assay is based on a reducing environment that indicates metabolic active cells. Active cells are able to convert resazurin into the resorufin. Resazurin is blue and non-fluorescent whereas resorufin is red and highly fluorescent; therefore a fluorescent and a colorimetric detection are possible. This application notes focuses on the quantification of cell proliferation in a Human Osteoblast cell culture by measuring alamarBlue® fluorescence on the FLUOstar OPTIMA microplate reader.

A europium based time-resolved fluorescence cytotoxicity assay was used to study the loss of membrane integrity of target cells. For that cells are loaded with a fluorescence enhancing ligand that penetrates the cell membrane quickly and is hydrolized to form a hydrophilic ligand that is released from cells only after cytolysis. The data obtained with BMG LABTECH´s PHERAstar shows that estrogen dramatically reduces cell induced by natural killer cells.

NAD+, NADH as well as NADP+, NADPH have been known to play vital roles in energy metabolism, antioxidation, and reductive biosynthesis. Changes in these systems can be monitored using absorbance spectroscopy. NADH and NADPH absorb light at 340 nm, whereas NAD+ and NADP+ do not. The FLUOstar, POLARstar and SPECTROstar Omega microplate readers from BMG LABTECH all have a UV/Vis spectrometer that can measure any absorbance range from 220-850 nm.