Growth in production of manufactured goods and the use of nanomaterials in consumer
products has mounted in the past few decades. Nanotoxicology or toxicity assessment of …

Accurate prediction of the adverse effects of test compounds on living systems, detection of
toxic thresholds, and expansion of experimental data sets to include multiple toxicity end …

Opportunistic infections are often polymicrobial. Two of the most important bacterial
opportunistic pathogens of humans, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus …

Introduction PrestoBlue is a new resazurin based reagent to assess cell viability and
cytotoxicity. It is claimed to be a fast and highly sensitive assay. Here, we compared …

The administration of biological therapeutics can evoke some level of immune response to
the drug product in the receiving subjects. An immune response comprised of neutralizing …

Islet transplantation is a promising therapy for Type 1 diabetes, but many attempts have
failed due to early graft hypoxia or immune rejection, which generate reactive oxygen …

Reduction of triphenyltetrazolium chloride (TTC) by tissue to the red-colored insoluble
triphenylformazan (TF) is directly linked to the activity of the mitochondrial respiratory chain …

Introduction Commercially-available resazurin-based reagents used for cell viability
assessment contain varying amounts of resorufin; these may contribute to differences in …

Single‐walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT) have been the focus of considerable attention as
a material with extraordinary mechanical and electrical properties. SWNT have been …

Heat shock proteins (Hsps) are molecular chaperones primarily involved in maintenance of
protein homeostasis. Their function has been best characterized in heat stress (HS) …