Assay Method Information

Assay Name:  Inhibtion Assay
Description:  On the day before the assay, CellSenser TrkA-NFAT-bla CHO-K1 cells were suspended in an assay medium (Opti-MEM1 Reduced Serum Medium (Invitrogen) containing 0.5% dialysed fetal bovine serum (Invitrogen), 0.1 mM nonessential amino acids (Invitrogen), 1 mM sodium pyruvate (Invitrogen) and antibiotics (100 U/mL penicillin and 100 g/mL streptomycin (Invitrogen))) and plated at a density of 2.4×104 cells/40 μL/well in a 96-well clear bottom plate (Corning, Catalogue No.: 3882). In some wells were added only the assay medium at 40 μL/well (Cell-free). On the day of the assay, 10 mM of the present compound (DMSO solution) was distributed in a 96-well plate (Costar, Catalogue No.: 3363) and serially diluted with DMSO with the geometrical ratio of 3. The serial dilutions were diluted with the assay medium to 100-fold to prepare a solution of the present compound with a 10-fold concentration (DMSO concentration: 1%). To the plate where cells were plated was added the present compound at 5 μL/well and the plate was incubated in a CO2 incubator with 5% CO2, 95% Air at 37° C. for 30 minutes. For a control and a blank, the assay medium containing 1% DMSO was added at 5 μL/well in place of the solution of the present compound. Subsequently the assay medium containing NGF (Mouse 2.5 s, Natural, Invitrogen) was added to the plate at 5 μL/well (final concentration of NGF: 50 ng/ml) and the plate was incubated in a CO2 incubator with 5% CO2, 95% Air at 37° C. for 5 hours. For the blank group, the assay medium was added in place of NGF at 5 μL/well.
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