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At the present time, Preferred Cell Systems™ is proud to distribute its assay kit product line through the following companies.
EUROPE
European-Wide Distributor: Trinova Biochem GmbH
Rathenau Str. 2
35394 Giessen
Germany
Tel: 49 641-94390-0
Fax: 49 641-94390-22
Website: www.trinova.de
E-mail: info@trinova.de
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Austria, Slovakia & Croatia
Distributor: Anopoli Biomedical Systems
Holunderstrasse 7a
A3032 Eichgraben
Austria
Tel: 43 2773 42564
Fax: 43 2773 44393
Email: walter.schlerka@anopoli.com
Website: www.anopoli.com
Czech Republic
Distributor: BARIA s.r.o.
Contact: Ing. Jena Kopecka
Jizni 393
252 44 Psary
Tel/Fax: 420 323 550 123
Website: www.baria.cz
Dubai and the Middle East
Distrubutor: Intelli Laboratories Trading LLC
Al Quasais Industrial Area 3
P.O. Box 239775
Dubai - UAE
Tel: 971 4 548 0211
Cell/Mobile: 971 55 999 6592
Website: https://www.intellilab.me
Contact: Amr Aly, a.aly@intellilab.me
Great Britain
Distributor: Universal Biologicals
Passhouse Farmhouse
Papworth St. Agnes
Cambridge CB23 3QU
Tel: 44 1480 839 015
Fax: 44 1480 831 912
Emal: ken@universalbiologicals.com
Website: www.universalbiologicals.com
India
Distributor: CellBios Healthcare & Lifesciences
Pvt. Ltd.
No. 1/7 First Floor
Poonamallee High Road
Vanagaram Chennai
600 095 Tamil Nadu
INDIA
Tel: 91 44 2476 5300
91 44 2476 7027
Fax: 91 44 2476 7037
Email: info@cellbios.com
Website: www.celbios.com
Distributor: Biogenuix Medsystems Pvt. Ltd.
Address: 412-B, 4th Floor,
Jyoti Shikhar Towers District Center,
Janak Puri,
New Delhi-110058
India
Tel: 91 11 25612008
Fax: 91 11 45513884
Contact: Ashish Bawa
E-mail: contact@biogenuix.com
Web: http://www.biogenuix.com
Israel
Distributor: BioTag Ltd.
Kfar Yona
P.O. Box 4067
ISRAEL 40300
Email: info@biotag.co.il
Website: http://www.biotag.co.il
Japan
Distributor: Cosmo Bio Co., Ltd.
Toyo Ekimae Bldg.
2-2-0 Toyo, Koto-ku
Tokyo 135-0016
Tel: 81 (0) 3-5632-9608
Fax: 81 (0) 3-5632-9965
E-mail: mail@cosmobio.co.jp
Website: www.cosmobio.co.jp
Distributor: Nacalai Tesque
498 Higashitamaya-cho
Nijo Karasuma, Nakagyo-ku
Kyoto 604-0855
Tel: 81-75-211-2703
Fax: 81-75-211-2763
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Website: www.nacalai.co.jp
The Netherlands, Luxenbourgh, Switzerland, Poland, Hungary, Lithuania, Estonia, Letland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland
Distributor: Divbio Science Europe
P.O. Box 92
4850 AB Ulvenhout
The Netherlands
Tel: 31 76 565 1680
Fax: 31 76 201 1229
E-mail: info@divbio.nl
Orders: orders@divbio.nl
Website: www.divbio.nl
South Africa
Distributor: DivBioScience Africa
7 Bright Street
Somerset West 7130
South Africa
Tel: 72 956 5818
Fax: 800 982 260
Email: info@divbio.co.za
Orders: orders@divbio.co.za
Website: www.divbio.co.za
South Korea
Distributor: KomaBiotech
19F, IS BIZ Tower,
Yangpyeong-ro 21 gil 26,
Yeongdeungpo-gu
Seoul 150-105
South Korea
Tel: 82-2-579-8787
Fax: 82-2-578-7042
Email: koma@komabiotech.co.kr
Website: www.komabiotech.co.kr
Taiwan
Distributor: Integrated Bio Ltd.
6F-3, No. 800 Xongzheng Road
Zonghe Dist.,
New Taipai City 23586
Taiwan
Tel: 886-2-8221-8898
Fax: 886-2-8221-8906
Email: info@integrated-bio.com
Website: www.integrated-bio.com
50 Years of Colony-Forming Assays for Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells: A Comparison and the Future
December 2016. Download the Application Note.
"Stem Cells and Predictive In Vitro Toxicity Testing".
November, 2011. Download the White Paper here.
Stem Cell Potency White Papers
February 2009: Measurement of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Potency Prior to Transplantation
CFU and HALO Cost-Analysis White Paper
AABB, San Diego, CA 2011. PDF File >22MB
AABB, San Diego, CA 2011. JPEG File 4.6MB
"A Stem Cell Potency and Release Criteria Assay Specifically Designed for Umbilical Cord BloodCord Transplantation that is Compliant With Regulatory Guidelines" presented at the International Society of Cellular Therapy (ISCT), San Diego, CA 2009
"A Novel Stem, Cell Potency and Release Assay for Umbilical Cord Blood: Correlation of Stem Cell Proliferation with Engraftment" presented at the International Society of Cellular Therapy (ISCT), May 2008 in Miami, FL
"Proliferation Assays Provide Non-Subjective and Standardized Alternatives for Assessing the Potency of Stem Cell Products for Storage and Transplantation" presented at the International Society of Cellular Therapy (ISCT), Sydney, Australia, June 2007
"A Novel Assay to Evaluate the Functional Potential of Umbilical Cord Blood Progenitor" presented at the International Society of Cellular Therapy (ISCT), Sydney, Australia,June 2007
"Erythropoietin Protects Cells from Oxidative Stress by Reducing Oxidative DNA Damage" presented at the Society of Toxicology Meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina in March 2007
A Standardized Protocol to Assess Stem Cell Potency. Steffen Porwolik. SamplingScience Blog. January 29, 2015. Link: http://www.biocision.com/blog/11485/assessing-stem-cell-potency.
Predicting Organ Toxicity In Vitro: Bone Marrow. Ivan N. Rich and Adrew J. Olaharski. In: Drug Discovery Toxicology: From Target Assessment to Translational Biomarkers. 1st Edition. Eds. Yvonne Will, J Eric McDuffie, Andrew J. Olaharski and Branson D. Jeffy. Jon Wiley & Sons. (2016).
Bioluminescence Potency Measurement opf Cellular Therapy Products. Hilli Harper and Ivan N. Rich. In: Cellular Therapy: Principles, Methods, and Regulations. 2nd Edition. Eds. Ellen Areman and Kathy Loper. AABB (2016).
Measuring Stem Cell Circadian Rhythm. William Hrushesky and Ivan N. Rich. In: Stem Cell Protocols, Ed: Ivan N. Rich. Human Press (2015).
Measuring the Potency of a Stem Cell Therapeutic. Ivan N. Rich. In: Stem Cell Protocols, Ed: Ivan N. Rich. Human Press (2015).
Measurement of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Proliferation, Self-Renewal and Expansion Potential. Ivan N. Rich. In: Stem Cell Protocols, Ed: Ivan N. Rich. Human Press (2015).
A Short Primer in Stem Cell Biology. Ivan N. Rich. In: Stem Cell Protocols, Ed: Ivan N. Rich. Human Press (2015).
Improving Quality and Potency Testing for Umbilical Cord Blood: A New Perspective, by Ivan N. Rich. Stem Cells Translational Medicine. First published on July 9, 2015; DOI 10.5966/sctm.2015-0036. Available at: http://stemcellstm.alphamedpress.org/content/early/2015/07/09/sctm.2015-0036.full.pdf+html
Detecting Primitive Hematopoietic Stem Cells in Total Nucleated and Mononuclear Cell Fractions from Umbilical Cord Blood Segments and Units, by John Patterson, Calli H. Moore, Emily Palser, Jason C. Hearn, Daniela Dumitru, Holli A. Harper and Ivan N. Rich. Journal of Translational Medicine (2015) 13:94. DOI 10.1186/s12967-015-0434-z. Available at: http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/13/1/94.
Present Cord Blood Testing Fails to Determine if the Stem Cells Used for Transplantation are of High Quality and Potency, by Ivan N. Rich. On The Parents Guide to Cord Blood Foundation wbsite. Available at: http://parentsguidecordblood.org/en/news/present-cord-blood-testing-fails-determine-if-stem-cells-used-transplantation-are-high-quality
Potency, Proliferation and Engraftment Potential of Stem Cell Therapeutics: The Relationship between Potency and Clinical Outcome for Hematopoietic Stem Cell Products. Published as an Open Access review article in J. Cell Science & Therapy (2013, S13).
The Difference Between Stem Cell Viability and Potency: A Short Guide for Parent and Patients, by Ivan N. Rich. On The Parents Guide to Cord Blood Foundation website. Available at: http://parentsguidecordblood.org/en/news/difference-between-stem-cell-viability-and-potency-short-guide-parents-and-patients.
Stem Cell Predictive Hemotoxicology, by Holli Harper and Ivan Rich, (2013). Stem Cell Predictive Hemotoxicology, Stem Cell Biology in Normal Life and Diseases, Prof. Kamran Alimoghaddam (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-51-1107-8, InTech, Available from: http://www.intechopen.com/books/stem-cell-biology-in-normal-life-and-diseases/stem-cell-predictive-hemotoxicology.
Hematopoietic Stem Cell Potency for Cellular Therapeutic Transplantation, by Hall KM, Harper H, & Rich IN. In: Hematopoietic Stem Cell Research,
Full reference: Karen M. Hall, Holli Harper and Ivan N. Rich (2012). Hematopoietic Stem Cell Potency for Cellular Therapeutic Transplantation, Advances in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Research, Rosana Pelayo (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-307-930-1, InTech, Available from: http://www.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/hematopoietic-stem-cell-potency-for-cellular-therapeutic-transplantation
This is the first definitive article on how hematopoietic stem cell potency is measured.
Cellular Therapy: Principles, Methods and Regulations. Eds. Areman EM, Loper K. 2009 pp. 581-591
"Bioluminescence Assays for Assessing Potency of Cellular Therapy Products".
A article describing how cord blood potency is measured using HALO®-96 PQR.
Toxicology Letters, 2009 188/2: 98-103
"In vitro to in vivo concordance of a high throughput assay of bone marrow toxicity across a diverse set of drug candidates".
Demonstrates that HALO® provides greater than 80% concordance with in vivo results.
Current Opinion in Drug Discovery and Development, 2003 Vol. 6/1:100-109
"In vitro hematotoxicity testing in drug development: A review of past, present and future applications".
Demonstrates how HALO® correlates with the colony-forming cell (CFC) assay and why HALO can be performed more rapidly than the CFC assay.
Expert Opinion in Drug Metabolism and Toxicology, 2007 Vol.3, pp 295-307.
"High-throughput in vitro hemotoxicity testing and in vitro cross-platform comparative toxicity".
This article describes the drawbacks of the colony-forming assay technique in hemotoxicity testing, development and descriptions of the HALO® Platforms, validation of the HALO® platforms against the colony-forming assay, predicting hemotoxicity and the ComparaTOX™ Platform for in vitro cross-platform comparative toxicity testing. Please contact HemoGenix®.
Toxicological Sciences 2005 Vol. 87/2, pp 427-441.
"Validation and Development of a Predictive Paradigm for Hemotoxicology using a Multifunctional Bioluminescence Colony-Forming Proliferation Assay".
Journal of Hematotherapy 1997 Vol. 6, pp 191-192
"Standardization of the CFU-GM Assay using Hematopoietic Growth Factors".
Mutation Research, 2007 Vol. 625, pp 72-82.
"Diesel exhaust influences carcinogenic PAH-induced genotoxicity and gene expression in human breast epithelial cells in culture" by L.A.Couter, C. Pereira and W.M. Baird.
This articles uses the OxyFLOW™ Platform to measure oxidative DNA damage.