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A Soluble Tetrazolium-Based Reduction Assay to Evaluate the Effect of Antibodies on Candida tropicalis Biofilms
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Immunologie und Infektion
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JoVE Journal Immunologie und Infektion
A Soluble Tetrazolium-Based Reduction Assay to Evaluate the Effect of Antibodies on Candida tropicalis Biofilms

A Soluble Tetrazolium-Based Reduction Assay to Evaluate the Effect of Antibodies on Candida tropicalis Biofilms

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06:50 min

September 16, 2022

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Kapitel

  • 00:04Introduction
  • 01:26C. tropicalis Biofilm Formation
  • 02:40Treatment of Biofilm with Antibodies
  • 03:30Biofilm Metabolic Activity Estimation
  • 05:14Results: Effectiveness of Sap2-Specific Polyclonal Antibodies Against Preformed C. tropicalis Biofilms
  • 06:04Conclusion

Summary

Automatische Übersetzung

A 96-well microtiter plate-based protocol using a 2,3-bis(2-methoxy-4-nitro-5-sulfophenyl)-5-carboxanilide-2H-tetrazolium (XTT) reduction assay is described herein, to study antibodies' effects on biofilms formed by C. tropicalis. This in vitro protocol can be used to check the effect of potential new antifungal compounds on the metabolic activity of Candida species cells in biofilms.

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