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Comparative Analysis of In Vivo and In Vitro Expression of Kinases in the MAPK and PI3K Pathways

BioScale, Inc.
23 Sept 2012

The MAPK and PI3K-AKT cascades are signal transduction pathways which heavily influence the regulation of cell proliferation, differentiation, and survival, and as such, are implicated in a wide variety of cancers. In this scientific poster, presented at ELRIG Drug Discovery 2012, the use of non-optical acoustic membrane microparticle (AMMP®) technology to assess and quantify the activation state of several implicated kinases, including EGFR, p38 and AKT, is described. In this poster BioScale demonstrate the feasibility of quantifying biomarker analytes in the complex matrices of cell and tumor lysates using the ViBE Workstation.

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The compact, benchtop ViBE BioAnalyzer is the ideal research tool for assay development or small to medium size studies which require highly-sensitive detection and quantitation of proteins in complex biological mixtures with real-time results. The small foot-print BioAnalyzer can be easily scaled-up to a ViBE Workstation for higher throughput and walk-away operation. The ViBE BioAnalyzer   •  Ideal for research applications and assay development   •  Simple manual operation   •  Simultaneously process eight samples   •  Upgrades to a ViBE Workstation for walk-away operation as sample load increases   •  Detects and quantitates proteins in complex biological mixtures

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