Francesca Valenti

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When using MTT assay after a drug treatment for x hours, can I consider the total time treatment x hours+ mtt incubation time?

For exemple 3 hours of drug and then 3 hours of MTT. Can I say the total drug treatment was 6 hours?

20 January 2025 2,956 3 View

I may have a contaminant agent in my HEPG2 cells, but don't know what is it?

I thawed a vial of HEPG2 cells, and right after 24h I started seeing hyphae-like structures. I sterilized everything and added Amphotericin. After a week of treatment and daily medium change, I...

22 November 2022 2,040 2 View

How to investigate an antimicrobial activity of a coating?

I am currently working on differently coated titanium disks in order to investigate any antimicrobial/bacteriostatic effect. Taking a cue from the literature, I'm incubating the disks with a known...

14 April 2022 1,901 7 View

Can pure, non-doped chitosan exert an antibacterial effext?

Many papers are dealing with the antibacterial properties of differently doped/loaded chitosan films, and many others talk about dissolved chitosan. I've also been reading about chitosan gel used...

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