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What is the function of MTT?
Introduction. The MTT assay is used to measure cellular metabolic activity as an indicator of cell viability, proliferation and cytotoxicity.
What is the MTT dye?
3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl tetrazolium bromide (MTT) is a yellow dye, which is reduced by cellular enzymes to the blue product formazan. Because the transformation is only possible in viable cells, the amount of blue formazan is proportional to the number of these cells (Mosmann, 1983).
What is MTT powder?
Thiazolyl Blue Tetrazolium Blue (MTT) may be used in measurement of cell proliferation. MTT produces a yellowish solution that is converted to dark blue, water-insoluble MTT formazan by mitochondrial dehydrogenases of living cells.
How do I analyze MTT results?
The data is analyzed by plotting cell number versus absorbance, allowing quantitation of changes in cell proliferation. The rate of tetrazolium reduction is proportional to the rate of cell proliferation. Where PC is the Positive control and test is the sample being tested.
Is MTT toxic to cells?
Toxicity. Although it is widely used, the MTT reagent exhibits cytotoxic effects, and adding the reagent to estimate cell viability may actually be damaging or even killing cells during the course of an experiment. MTT has been reported to be toxic to eukaryotic cells (10).
Is MTT cytotoxic?
MTT assay is commonly used to assess the cellular cytotoxicity caused by anticancer drugs in glioblastomas. However, there have been some reports insisting that MTT assay exhibited non-specific intracellular reduction of tetrazolium which led to underestimated results of cytotoxicity.
What is positive control in MTT?
The positive control in MTT assay is to test the ability of cells to proliferate. usually using polyclonal antigens to stimulate positive control such as phytohaemagglutinin or conA+ IL-2 in test we use the organism and in negative left without addition of any antigen.
What is good cell viability?
A good cell viability is anywhere between 80-90% in most of the cell lines.
How is MTT reduced?
MTT is reduced by metabolically active cells to form an insoluble purple formazan product that is quantifiable by spectrophotometry. It is the most common and direct assay for cell viability.
How do I analyze MTT assay results?
What is negative control in MTT assay?
Negative control for cytotoxicty is the cells left untreated + MTT + solubilizing buffer. Blank is medium with NO cell + MTT + Solubilizing buffer. However, this terminology if flexible. People mainly use two terms in viability assays; control and blank. If you say CONTROL, this means the untreated cells (+ MTT + SB).
How do you check cell viability?
Cell viability assays use a variety of markers as indicators of metabolically active (living) cells. Examples of markers commonly used include measuring ATP levels, measuring the ability to reduce a substrate, and detecting enzymatic/protease activities unique to living cells.
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