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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Tobias Heckel
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-52044 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Kustermann Stefan S Manigold Tobias T Ploix Corinne C Skubatz Marion M Heckel Tobias T Hinton Heather H Weiser Thomas T Singer Thomas T Suter Laura L Roth Adrian A
Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology 20140102 2
Vascular leakage is a serious side effect of therapies based on monoclonal antibodies or cytokines which may lead to life-threatening situations. With the steady increase of new drug development programs for large molecules, there is an urgent need for reliable tools to assess this potential liability of new medicines in a rapid and cost-effective manner. Using human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) as a model for endothelium, we established an impedance-based assay measuring the integr ...[more]