Investigational anti-restenosis drug pimecrolimus disappoints

...ecrolimus and paclitaxel; or the paclitaxel-coated costar stent. All of these stents are made with the reser...nt (0.96 mm) and least with the paclitaxel-eluting costar stent (0.58 mm), but none of the differences betwe..., those rates were both 14.4 percent, and with the costar stent, they were both 2.0 percent. The difference ...

Costar in Medical Products

CoStar Paclitaxel-eluting Coronary Stent System

Description:... BIOTRONIK AG will be the world wide sole distributor of CONOR Medsystems costar paclitaxel stent. Radically different from conventional drug eluting stents, the CONOR Medsystems stent is the first non-surface-coated drug eluting s...
Company:Biotronik GmbH & Co.

Costar in Biological News

Snakes' virtual glasses, leopard spots and all-optical transistors

...ve shown that snakes can localize heat sources to a surprisingly accurate resolution of five degrees (roughly the angular width of "Snakes on a Plane" costar Rachel Blanchard at three meters). Physicists at the Technische Universität München believe the solution to the paradox could be a network of neuro...

Costar in Biological Technology

ATP Quantitation in the LMax Microplate Luminometer (MaxLine Application Note #40)

...Cat. No. 3912; Tel: 1800492 1110). (In our hands, the Porvair PS plate has tended to have a lower background and slightly better sensitivity than the costar plate.) PREPARATION OF LMAX, REAGENTS AND STANDARDS AND ASSAY PROCEDURE The instructions supplied with the kit (Technical M...

Verifying Multichannel Pipettor Performance with Standard Dispense Solutions in the SpectraMax Plus (MaxLine Application Note #28)

...Scientific, catalog #12565226) For dispense volumes 40 L - 150 L costar half area EIA/RIA plates (Costar, catalog #3690) 3. Certified pipetto..., use a regular 96-well plate. For dispense volumes of 40 L to 150 L, use a costar half-area plate (to maximize the NIR absorbance values and increase sensiti...

Using the SpectraMax Plus for USP Dissolution Calibration (MaxLine Application Note #27)

...alog # R8024) UV Plate, disposable (Corning costar Corp., catalog # 3635) 3. Calibrator tablets...d over-writing the pre-read data. If you use costar UV plates, you may or may not want to use stored p... you require. At 296 nm, the average absorbance of costar wells containing water is approximately .039 to .0...

UV Absorbance Measurements in SpectraMax Microplate Spectrophotometers MaxLine Application Note #32)

...V microplates have good transmission down to ~220 nm. The Polyfiltronics UV Plate is usable down to 240 nm, though it has a higher background than the costar and Greiner plates. Standard polystyrene microplates can be used down to approximately 300 nm. The microplates described above have excelle...

PathCheck Applied to Measurement of Protein Solutions in the SpectraMax Plus Microplate Spectrophotometer (MaxLine Application Note #26)

...ot fit properly. Disposable UV Plate, Corning costar Corp. (catalog # 3635) UV-MAX, (Polyfiltronic...ng the pre-read data. If you use costar UV plates, you may or may not want to use stored p... you require. At 280 nm, the average absorbance of costar wells containing water is approximately .050 + ....

Measurement of proteasome inhibition in live cells in Molecular Devices microplate fluorometers

...e cultured in DME + 10% FBS + 1% Pen/ Strep/L-glutamine + 200 g/mL of G418. They were seeded overnight in 100 L at a density of 30,000 cells/well in a costar black-wall /clearbottom 96-well plate. The cells were then treated with ALLN at doses of 0, 0.1, 0.3, 1, 3, 10 and 100 M for 20 hours (N=12/group). Th...

Receptor Binding Assays using Fluorescence Polarization Detection: the [FP]2TM Characterized Tracers

...re conducted in black, 384-well microtitre plates (Corning Costar, Cat. No. 3654), except for Bombesin (6-14) and Urotensin II, which used a different costar plate type (Cat. No. 3710). The total assay volume was 40 μL. The order of sequential addition of reagents was as follows: 1. Add 20 &#...

High-content screening of GPCR activation with MetaXpress, AcuityXpress and the Transfluor assay system

... experiment. Beta-arrestin-GFP and Beta-2-adrenergic receptor (2AR)-expressing U2OS cells (Molecular Devices) Corning costar 384-well microplates (Cat. #3712) U2OS media: MEM (Gibco Cat. #11095) with 10% heat-inactivated FCS (Gibco Cat. #10082), 1...