The Colon-on-a-plate® technology is a high-throughput biorelevant in vitro simulation of the physiology and microbiology of the colon. This robust screening technology is not limited to comparing the impact of tens of test product on the microbiome, but also offers insight into the factors
Last updated on: 26-07-2024 - 09:50
Contact: Cannot be disclosed
Organisation: ProDigest
Status: History of use, Internally validated, Published in peer reviewed journal
The SHIME® (Simulator of Human Intestinal Microbial Ecosystem) model is currently the most representative in vitro technology for the combined simulation of the physiological, chemical and microbiological properties of the gastrointestinal tract. The model enables study of the impact of long-term
Last updated on: 26-07-2024 - 09:49
Contact: Cannot be disclosed
Organisation: ProDigest
Status: History of use, Internally validated, Published in peer reviewed journal
ProDigest's short-term colonic simulation is an in vitro model for rapid screening of the interaction between test products and the gut microbiome. The key microbial saccharolytic and proteolytic markers are analysed as well as evolution in the composition of the microbiome and other endpoints as
Last updated on: 17-04-2023 - 13:22
Contact: Cannot be disclosed
Organisation: ProDigest
Partners: ProDigest
Status: History of use, Internally validated, Published in peer reviewed journal
The purpose of the present development is to use avian MoDCs to implement a cellular platform to increase understanding of the immune responses induced by various antigens of interest (e.g. vaccine candidates) and evaluate their immunogenic potential. Considering the difficulty to work on dendritic
Last updated on: 03-02-2023 - 08:51
The in vitro micronucleus test is a genotoxicity test for the detection of micronuclei in the cytoplasm of interphase cells and has been described in detail in OECD TG 487. Micronuclei may originate from acentric chromosome fragments (i.e. lacking a centromere), or whole chromosomes that
Last updated on: 23-11-2022 - 16:31
Contact: Birgit Mertens
Organisation: Sciensano
Status: Published in peer reviewed journal, Validated by an external party (e.g. OECD, EURL ECVAM,…)
The VITOTOX test is a bacterial genotoxicity test. The test is based on bacteria that contain the lux operon of Vibrio fischeri under transcriptional control of the mutated recN promoter, which is controlled by the bacterial SOS-system (TA 104-recN2-4 strain or Genox strain). After incubation
Last updated on: 26-05-2022 - 10:40
Contact: Roel Anthonissen
Organisation: Sciensano
Status: History of use, Published in peer reviewed journal
The CALUX® system (Chemically Actived LUciferase eXpression) of Bio Detection Systems (BDS, Amsterdam, the Netherlands) uses U-2 OS cells (human osteoblast) that are stably transfected with human TRb or human PPARg2 (BDS, Amsterdam) and a luciferase reporter construct under the control of a receptor
Last updated on: 05-05-2022 - 08:59
Contact: Cannot be disclosed
Organisation: Sciensano
Partners: BDS
Status: Published in peer reviewed journal
The ATP cell viability assay (CellTiter-Glo assay test kit) provides a quantitative measurement of the ATP content directly proportional to the number of cells present in culture. The homogeneous assay procedure involves adding one single reagent, CellTiter-Glo Reagent directly to cells cultured in
Last updated on: 24-03-2022 - 11:20
Contact: Cannot be disclosed
Organisation: Sciensano
Status: History of use, Published in peer reviewed journal
The tetanus neurotoxin (TeNT) is one of the most toxic proteins known to man, which prior to the use of the vaccine against the TeNT producing bacteria Clostridium tetani, resulted in a 20% mortality rate upon infection. The clinical detrimental effects of tetanus have decreased immensely since the
Last updated on: 22-03-2022 - 16:49
The GENOMARK tool in metabolically competent human HepaRG cells is based on the transcriptomic results obtained with 12 genotoxic (in vivo positive results) and 12 non-genotoxic (in vivo negative results) reference compounds. Genotoxic compounds were selected to cover different mechanisms of action
Last updated on: 28-02-2022 - 11:03
Contact: Anouck Thienpont
Organisation: Sciensano, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
Status: Internally validated, Published in peer reviewed journal
