"I'm optimizing the control group OD for an MTT assay on Leishmania major promastigotes in 96-well plates to establish a suitable seeding density for drug screening.
I seeded different parasite numbers (200,000; 300000, 400000, 500,000; 800000, and 1,000,000 per well) in:
96 well Adhesive plate in triplicate, incubated for 24 0r 48 hour at 24°C in RPMI medium with 10% FBS, then performed MTT (5 mg/mL, 6-hour incubation), centrifuge of them (5000g, 10 min, 8°c), resuspend of parasite with 100 μl DMSO, and read at 570 nm.
Unexpectedly, the results showed high variability such as:
Questions:
Any advice or shared experiences would be greatly appreciated! Thanks."