The PubChem BioAssay database (http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) is a public repository for biological activities of small molecules and small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) hosted by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). It archives experimental descriptions of assays and biological test results and makes the information freely accessible to the public. A PubChem BioAssay data entry includes a...

Patients receiving antitumor chemotherapy are at increased risk of developing nosocomial infections, and the antibacterial therapy of such infections is often monitored by bioassay. The effect of antitumor agents on seven bioassay procedures using strains of Sarcina, Klebsiella, Clostridium, Pseudomonas, Staphylococcus aureus, and S. epidermidis or Bacillus was evaluated. The minimum inhibitory...

A new and easy fast-screening test (the Ad-DR (adenoviral vector-dioxin response) bioassay) for dioxins in biological samples from highly dioxin-contaminated areas was developed. The aryl-hydrocarbon-receptor (AhR) reporter system was utilized to transport a dioxin-responsive-element (DRE) via an adenovirus vector into rat hepatoma (H4IIE) cells before each experiment; these DRE-H4IIE cells wer...

A new bioassay method for measurement of angiotensin II was clinically applied to determine the plasma renin activity (PRA) in normal subjects and hypertensive patients. Angiotensin II was extracted by a modified procedure reported by Boucher et al. Levels of angiotensin II extracted from 17 blood samples were independently determined by our new bioassay method and the rat pressor assay. The ne...

Bioassay is the measurement of the potency of a chemical substance by its effect on a living animal or plant tissue. Bioassay data and chemical structures from pharmacokinetic and drug metabolism screening are mined from and housed in multiple databases. Bioassay prediction is calculated accordingly to determine further advancement. This paper proposes a four-step preprocessing of datasets for ...

A high-throughput bioassay system to evaluate the efficacy of residual pesticides against mosquitoes and muscid flies with minimal insect handling was developed. The system consisted of 4 components made of readily available materials: 1) a CO2 anaesthetizing chamber, 2) a specialized aspirator, 3) a cylindrical flat-bottomed glass bioassay chamber assembly, and 4) a customized rack.

Five datasets were constructed from ligand and bioassay result data from the literature. These datasets include bioassay results from the Ames mutagenicity assay, Greenscreen GADD-45a-GFP assay, Syrian Hamster Embryo (SHE) assay, and 2 year rat carcinogenicity assay results. These datasets provide information about chemical mutagenicity, genotoxicity and carcinogenicity.

We describe an innovative aspirator gun designed to transfer individual anesthetized mosquitoes directly into glass bioassay tubes. The gun has been used for thousands of transfers with extremely low associated mortality and is the central component of a high-throughput bioassay system. The gun is constructed using readily obtainable materials and can be modified for a range of insects.

A novel DNA bioassay-on-chip using surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) on a bimetallic nanowave chip is presented. In this bioassay, SERS signals were measured after a single reaction on the chip's surface without any washing step, making it simple-to-use and reducing the reagent cost. Using the technique, specific oligonucleotide sequences of the dengue virus 4 were detected.

This paper presents the in vivo and in situ evaluation of a system that wirelessly monitors the accumulation of biliary sludge in a plastic biliary stent. The sensing element, located within the stent, is a passive array of magnetoelastic resonators that is queried by a wireless electromagnetic signal. The in vivo and in situ testing uses commercially-available plastic biliary stents, each enha...