Marc Rogers (Metrion CSO) takes part in a collaborative webinar with Nanion Technologies entitled “Validation and optimization of automated patch-clamp voltage-gated Ca2+ channel assays”.
Marc Rogers (Metrion CSO) takes part in a collaborative webinar with Nanion Technologies entitled “Validation and optimization of automated patch-clamp voltage-gated Ca2+ channel assays”.
Kramer, J.; Himmel, H. M.; Lindqvist, A.; Stoelzle-Feix, S.; Chaudhary, K. W.; Li, D.; Bohme, G. A.; Bridgland-Taylor, M.; Hebeisen, S.; Fan, J.; Renganathan, M.; Imredy, J.; Humphries, E. S. A.; Brinkwirth, N.; Strassmaier, T.; Ohtsuki, A.; Danker, T.; Vanoye, C.; Polonchuk, L.; Fermini, B.; Beck Pierson, J.; Gintant, G. Scientific Reports, 2020, 10; 5627
Bradley J. Ridder, Derek J. Leishman, Matthew Bridgland-Taylor, Mohammadreza Samieegohar, Xiaomei Han, Wendy W. Wu, Aaron Randolph, Phu Tran, Jiansong Sheng, Timm Danker, Anders Lindqvist, Daniel Konrad, Simon Hebeisen, Liudmila Polonchuk, Evgenia Gissinger, Muthukrishnan Renganathan, Bryan Koci, Haiyang Wei, Jingsong Fan, Paul Levesque, Jae Kwagh, John Imredy, Jin Zhai, Marc Rogers, Edward Humphries, Robert Kirby, Sonja Stoelzle-Feix, Nina Brinkwirth, Maria Giustina Rotordam, Nadine Becker, Søren Friis, Markus Rapedius, Tom A. Goetze, Tim Strassmaier, George Okeyo, James Kramer, Yuri Kuryshev, Caiyun Wu, Herbert Himmel, Gary R. Mirams, David G. Strauss, Rémi Bardenet, Zhihua Lia. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, 394: 114961
Domainex and Metrion Biosciences have formed an alliance to identify new chemical hits against ion-channel targets. Key to this collaboration are Domainex’s experience in hit identification and Metrion Bioscience’s expertise in ion channel screening and pharmacology.
Activated effector memory T-cells (TEM) have been implicated in the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases.1 TEM cells express high levels of the voltage-gated potassium channel, Kv1.3, which plays a role in controlling the function of TEM. Inhibition of Kv1.3 reduces the release of pro-inflammatory mediators, inhibits T-cell proliferation and migration to inflamed tissues, and has been shown to ameliorate autoimmune disease symptoms in preclinical animal models.
Presentation by Marc Rogers, CSO Metrion Biosciences, Nanion technologies Exhibitor session, 2020 Biophysical Society meeting, San Diego USA.
As part of the the LabTube meets series of interviews Marc Rogers, Metrion Biosciences CSO, outlines the benefits of targeting ion channels for pain and some of the hurdles in developing successful ion channel modulators.
Ion channels play a key role in regulating resting membrane potential and cell excitability and are attractive targets for therapeutic intervention.
Thallium (Tl+) flux assays, which measure the flow of Tl+ through potassium channels, offer a high throughput method for the identification of potassium channel activators.
Rogers, M. MedNous, November-December 2019. Article published in the November-December 2019 edition of ‘MedNous’, a publication of Evernow Publishing Ltd.
Recent work by FDA and HESI CiPA working groups indicate that in vitro hERG, Nav1.5 and Cav1.2 potency data in addition to dynamic hERG kinetic data is required to accurately predict proarrhythmic risk.