Tom Cornelissen, PhD, reMYND Science Director Contract Research:
“At reMYND's Contract Research Organization (CRO), we specialize in conducting efficacy and proof of concept studies using mouse models for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. In our search for innovation, we have integrated Amytracker 520 from Ebba Biotech into our research protocols, and the results have been exceptional.
Amytracker 520 has significantly enhanced our ability to detect and analyse key pathological features in brain tissue. Specifically, we have successfully identified amyloid plaques, Tau tangles, Lewy body-like inclusions, and alpha-synuclein preformed fibrils (PFFs, which were administered stereotactically). The specificity of the stain, combined with a high signal-to-noise ratio, ensures that our findings are both accurate and reliable (find out more HERE).
Furthermore, the narrow spectrum of Amytracker 520 makes it an excellent choice for co-staining applications, allowing us to achieve comprehensive and detailed imaging results. This will be invaluable for our clients to advance the understanding of the underlying mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases and in the development of potential therapeutic strategies.
Overall, Amytracker 520 has proven to become a critical tool in our research arsenal, and we highly recommend it to other researchers in the field of neurodegenerative disease studies."
Tom Cornelissen (PhD), Science Director Contract Research, reMYND, Leuven, Belgium
Prof. Fabrizio Chiti about Amytracker 630:
"I like Amytracker probes because they can be used to detect amyloid-like species inside cells. We have used Amytracker 630 to exclude amyloid-like species of TDP-43 expressed in NSC34 cultured cells. We have also used cells treated with BSA and preformed Abeta fibrils as negative and positive controls respectively, all internalised with a specific kit. We detected fluorescence only in the latter case, as expected. Cells were fixed, permeabilized with Triton X-100 and Amytracker 630 was then added."
Prof. Fabrizio Chiti is Full Professor of Biochemistry leading the Laboratory for the Study of Protein Misfolding Diseases at the University of Florence in Italy.
Adam Kreutzer about Amytracker 680:
“I have been very happy with the Amytracker dyes I have used thus far. I have easily worked the Amytracker dyes into my free-floating, fixed brain tissue immunostaining workflow. The nice thing about the Amytracker dyes is that I don’t have to dehydrate the tissue in a series of ethanols and xylene, which is required for the widely used thioflavin and congo red dyes. The Amytracker dyes can just be applied to the tissue in TBS and then imaged. I often don’t even wash the tissues after treatment with the Amytracker dyes."
Adam Kreutzer, PhD, Associate Project Scientist at the Department of Chemistry, Nowick Laboratory, University of California, Irvine, USA
Keiza Jack about Amytracker 540:
“I have used Amytracker 540 in my PhD project as a tool to measure the structural differences of prion structures and prion-seeded amyloid fibrils. Amytracker 540 reports sensitively on subtle structural differences between protein structures, giving me a fast and reproduceable method to compare protein structures, which was essential to investigate my thesis"
Kezia Jack from MRC Prion Unit, Institute of Prion Diseases, University College London, London, UK
Dr. Jaakko Sarparanta about Amytracker 680:
”We used Amytracker 680 to study the amyloid-like nature of pathological protein aggregates in muscle sections. The bright positive staining was easily interpreted and provided the much needed support for our Congo Red results.”
Dr. Jaakko Sarparanta, Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland.
M. Garcia about Amytracker 520:
"We are studying Alzheimer’s disease in mouse models and use a variety of anti-amyloid-beta antibodies and traditional dyes to look at amyloid-beta aggregation. Amytracker 520 gave a very clean staining with high signal to noise. It was easy to use as a part of routine immunohistochemistry and made for a great complement to Thioflavin S staining to detect dense-core plaques with much less background."
M. Garcia (MSc), Doctoral student, Sweden