We add resazurine to the following conditions:

Just media (neg Control)

Non-transfected cells (our positive control)

Non-transfected cells + drug

Transfected cells

Transfected cells + drug

To calculate the cell viability using Alamar blue we are measuring spectrophotometry at 570nm and 600nm

We are using the following formula to obtain % cell viability relative to positive control cells:

100x ((ΔAbs sample)-(ΔAbs neg CT)) / ((ΔAbs pos CT)-(ΔAbs neg CT)),

and ΔAbs = Abs(570nm) - Abs(600nm)

My rational is that:

If (Pos CT-Neg CT) -------- 100% viability

Than (Condition-Neg CT)----- x

Is that to simplistic?

Because I have read this info:

 http://www.abdserotec.com/measuring-cytotoxicity-proliferation-spectrophotometry-fluorescence-alamarblue.html

and I indeed can find a formula that looks alike this one but only for fluorescence.

Should we read fluorescence instead to calculate the % of viability relative to control cells?

Do we really need to introduce the values of the Extinction coefficient of the reduced/oxidized form of resazurine in both wavelenghts?

Thanks in advance

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