2005, issue 1: IB4-SAP Prevents Axotomy-Induced Sprouting of Aß Fibers / by Pearson M / featuring IB4-SAP (Cat. #IT-10) ATS Seeks Strategic Partner for Chronic Pain Drug SFN Poster of the Year Targeting Talk: Effective Toxins Targeting Tools: Anti-ChAT (Cat. #AB-N34 and AB-N34AP) 2005, issue 2: Noradrenergic inputs to the medial amygdala originate in the A1 and …
One of the most important features of the Advanced Targeting Systems product line is the availability of control toxins that allow the researcher to fully evaluate results of the treatment of cells or animals with targeted toxins. For instance, anti-DBH-SAP is targeted with a mouse monoclonal antibody. Its control partner is mouse IgG-SAP, that is, …
We are re-examining some data collected using an immunotoxin not prepared by your company (VChAT-sap). Our results in vivo indicated that there were non-specific effects although the creators claimed it was specific. We ran a Western Blot and determined that about half the saporin was not bound to the antibody. This may have been the …
Basomedial hypothalamic injections of neuropeptide Y conjugated to saporin selectively disrupt hypothalamic controls of food intake. Bugarith K, Dinh TT, Li AJ, Speth RC, Ritter S. Endocrinology 146(3):1179-1191, 2005. Neurons in the arcuate nucleus (ARC) that coexpress neuropeptide-Y (NPY) and Agouti gene-related protein may be involved in glucoprivic feeding. The authors investigated the use of …
As most of you know, SP-SAP is a potential therapeutic that ATS is developing for use in the elimination of chronic pain. For the past seven years, preclinical studies have been carried out in the rat, safety and dosing studies completed in the dog and the first of two toxicology studies has begun in the …
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Contributed by Lesley E. Northrop, Nicole Cameron and Mary Erskine, Department of Biology, Boston University The posterodorsal medial amygdala (MePD) is involved in processing the information from genito- sensory stimuli which is needed for mating-induced pseudopregnancy. The amygdala complex is known to be involved in memory storage and consolidation, processes known to be influenced by …