公开(公告)号：US20200278339A1

公开(公告)日：2020-09-03

申请号：US16752298

申请日：2020-01-24

Applicant: ACEA Biosciences, Inc.

Inventor： Xiaobo Wang ,  Wei Ouyang ,  Nan Li ,  Biao Xi ,  Yama A. Abassi ,  Xiao Xu

IPC: G01N33/487

Abstract: Extracellular recording devices with reference electrodes positioned in a cell free zone and methods of conducting extracellular recording. Parallel cell-substrate impedance monitoring and extracellular recording of excitable cells such as excitable cells, cardiomyocytes, and cardiomyocyte precursor cells using devices that switch between extracellular recording and impedance monitoring modes.

公开(公告)号：US20170370907A1

公开(公告)日：2017-12-28

申请号：US15613052

申请日：2017-06-02

Applicant: ACEA Biosciences, Inc.

Inventor： Yama A. Abassi ,  Naichen Yu ,  Josephine Atienza ,  Xiao Xu ,  Xiaobo Wang

IPC: G01N33/50 ,  G01N33/543 ,  C12Q1/00 ,  G01N27/02

CPC classification number: G01N33/5041 ,  C12Q1/002 ,  G01N27/021 ,  G01N33/5014 ,  G01N33/5438 ,  G01N2333/4716 ,  G01N2333/705 ,  G01N2333/91205 ,  G01N2500/04 ,  G01N2500/10

Abstract: A method of identifying a potential therapeutic compound that affects a Receptor Tyrosine Kinase (RTK) pathway in cancer cells, which includes: providing a device capable of measuring cell-substrate impedance; culturing cancer cells in serum-free media in at least two wells of the device; adding to a first well a proposed therapeutic compound that affects a RTK pathway and a RTK stimulating factor for the RTK pathway to form a test well, and adding to another well the RTK stimulating factor to form a control well; continuously monitoring cell-substrate impedance of the at least two wells and optionally determining cell indices from the monitored cell-substrate impedance; and determining a difference in impedance or optionally cell index between the test well and control well; and if significantly different, concluding the proposed therapeutic compound is therapeutically active in the RTK pathway within the cancer cells.

公开(公告)号：US10168318B2

公开(公告)日：2019-01-01

申请号：US15613052

申请日：2017-06-02

Applicant: ACEA Biosciences, Inc.

Inventor： Yama A. Abassi ,  Naichen Yu ,  Josephine Atienza ,  Xiao Xu ,  Xiaobo Wang

IPC: G01N33/50 ,  C12Q1/00 ,  G01N27/02 ,  G01N33/543

Abstract: A method of identifying a potential therapeutic compound that affects a Receptor Tyrosine Kinase (RTK) pathway in cancer cells, which includes: providing a device capable of measuring cell-substrate impedance; culturing cancer cells in serum-free media in at least two wells of the device; adding to a first well a proposed therapeutic compound that affects a RTK pathway and a RTK stimulating factor for the RTK pathway to form a test well, and adding to another well the RTK stimulating factor to form a control well; continuously monitoring cell-substrate impedance of the at least two wells and optionally determining cell indices from the monitored cell-substrate impedance; and determining a difference in impedance or optionally cell index between the test well and control well; and if significantly different, concluding the proposed therapeutic compound is therapeutically active in the RTK pathway within the cancer cells.

公开(公告)号：US10067121B2

公开(公告)日：2018-09-04

申请号：US14541024

申请日：2014-11-13

Applicant: ACEA Biosciences, Inc.

Inventor： Yama A. Abassi ,  Naichen Yu ,  Josephine Atienza ,  Xiao Xu ,  Xiaobo Wang

IPC: G01N33/50 ,  C12Q1/00 ,  G01N27/02 ,  G01N33/543

CPC classification number: G01N33/5041 ,  C12Q1/002 ,  G01N27/021 ,  G01N33/5014 ,  G01N33/5438 ,  G01N2333/4716 ,  G01N2333/705 ,  G01N2333/91205 ,  G01N2500/04 ,  G01N2500/10

Abstract: Use of cell-substrate impedance based methods for screening for agonists of G-Protein Coupled Receptors (GPCRs) or inhibitors of a Receptor Tyrosine Kinases (RTKs), identifying compounds that affect GPCR or RTK pathways, validating molecular targets involved in a GPCR or RTK signaling pathways, monitoring dose-dependent functional activation of GPCR or RTK; determining desensitization of a GPCR and identifying a compound capable of affecting RTK activity in cancer cell proliferation.

公开(公告)号：US10725023B2

公开(公告)日：2020-07-28

申请号：US16237382

申请日：2018-12-31

Applicant: ACEA Biosciences, Inc.

Inventor： Yama A. Abassi ,  Naichen Yu ,  Josephine Atienza ,  Xiao Xu ,  Xiaobo Wang

IPC: G01N33/50 ,  G01N33/543 ,  G01N27/02 ,  C12Q1/00

Abstract: A method of identifying a therapeutic compound for treating cancer in a human subject, the method including: providing a device that measures cell-substrate impedance; culturing cancer cells in the at least two wells, wherein the cancer cells are obtained from a human subject and have a receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) pathway; adding to a first well a proposed therapeutic compound that affects an RTK pathway and an RTK stimulating factor for the RTK pathway to form a test well, and adding to another well the RTK stimulating factor to form a control well; continuously monitoring cell-substrate impedance of the at least two wells; and determining a difference in impedance or optionally in cell index between the test well and control well; and if significantly different, concluding the proposed therapeutic compound is therapeutically active in the RTK pathway within the cancer cells of the human subject.

公开(公告)号：US10012636B2

公开(公告)日：2018-07-03

申请号：US15651882

申请日：2017-07-17

Applicant: ACEA Biosciences, Inc.

Inventor： Xiaobo Wang ,  Yama A. Abassi ,  Biao Xi ,  Wen Fu Zhang ,  Xiao Xu

IPC: C40B30/06 ,  G01N7/00 ,  C12Q1/00 ,  G01N33/483

CPC classification number: G01N33/4836

Abstract: A system for monitoring impedance of excitable cells in vitro, which includes a device for monitoring cell-substrate impedance at 20 millisecond resolution, which includes a nonconductive substrate with one or more electrode arrays fabricated in one or more wells, wherein cell attachment on the substrate can result in a detectable change in impedance between electrodes within each electrode array; an impedance analyzer capable of impedance measurement at 20 millisecond time resolution; electronic circuitry that can engage said device and selectively connect said two or more electrode arrays of said device to said impedance analyzer; and a software program that controls said electronic circuitry and records and analyzes data obtained from said impedance analyzer.

公开(公告)号：US20200158670A1

公开(公告)日：2020-05-21

申请号：US16721742

申请日：2019-12-19

Applicant: ACEA Biosciences, Inc.

Inventor： Xiaobo Wang ,  Wei Ouyang ,  Nan Li ,  Tianxing Wang ,  Xiaoyu Zhang ,  Xiao Xu ,  Yama A. Abassi

IPC: G01N27/02 ,  G01N33/483

Abstract: Devices, systems and methods for monitoring excitable cells, such as cardiomyocytes, on microelectrode arrays that couple the electro-stimulation of excitable cells to induce or regulate cardiomyocyte beating and the simultaneous measurement of impedance and extracellular recording to assess changes in cardiomyocyte beating, viability, morphology or electrophysical properties in response to a plurality of treatments.

公开(公告)号：US20180306771A1

公开(公告)日：2018-10-25

申请号：US16020679

申请日：2018-06-27

Applicant: ACEA Biosciences, Inc.

Inventor： Xiaobo Wang ,  Yama A. Abassi ,  Biao Xi ,  Wen Fu Zhang ,  Xiao Xu

IPC: G01N33/483

Abstract: A system for monitoring cell-substrate impedance of excitable cells and monitoring the beating cycle of cardiomyocytes, the system including: a device for monitoring cell-substrate impedance at 20 millisecond time resolution, the device having one or more wells on a nonconductive substrate, wherein at least one well of the one or more wells comprises an electrode array fabricated on the substrate for measurement of cell-substrate impedance at 20 millisecond time resolution; an impedance analyzer that measures cell-substrate impedance from the at least one well at 20 millisecond time resolution; electronic circuitry that electrically connects the electrode array from the at least one well to the impedance analyzer; and a software program that analyzes the measured cell-substrate impedance.

公开(公告)号：US20180095064A1

公开(公告)日：2018-04-05

申请号：US15651882

申请日：2017-07-17

Applicant: ACEA Biosciences, Inc.

Inventor： Xiaobo Wang ,  Yama A. Abassi ,  Biao Xi ,  Wen Fu Zhang ,  Xiao Xu

IPC: G01N33/483

CPC classification number: G01N33/4836

Abstract: A system for monitoring impedance of excitable cells in vitro, which includes a device for monitoring cell-substrate impedance at 20 millisecond resolution, which includes a nonconductive substrate with one or more electrode arrays fabricated in one or more wells, wherein cell attachment on the substrate can result in a detectable change in impedance between electrodes within each electrode array; an impedance analyzer capable of impedance measurement at 20 millisecond time resolution; electronic circuitry that can engage said device and selectively connect said two or more electrode arrays of said device to said impedance analyzer; and a software program that controls said electronic circuitry and records and analyzes data obtained from said impedance analyzer.

公开(公告)号：US20170315131A1

公开(公告)日：2017-11-02

申请号：US15487349

申请日：2017-04-13

Applicant: ACEA Biosciences, Inc.

Inventor： Xiao Xu ,  Yama A. Abassi ,  Xiaobo Wang ,  Jiangbo Gan

IPC: G01N33/68 ,  C12M1/34 ,  C12M1/12 ,  G01N33/483 ,  G01N33/50

CPC classification number: G01N33/6854 ,  C12M25/08 ,  C12M41/36 ,  G01N33/4836 ,  G01N33/5005 ,  G01N2500/10

Abstract: Methods for identifying compounds that modulate cellular responses stimulated by IgE, which include providing an impedance-based system that monitors cell-substrate impedance of cells on a substrate; introducing cells to the substrate of the system; adding at least one test compound and IgE to the cells, wherein the at least one test compound is suspected of modulating cell responses stimulated by the IgE; adding an antigen to the cells; monitoring the cell-substrate impedance of cells on the substrate; and analyzing the cell-substrate impedance to evaluate whether the at least one test compound alters a cellular response to stimulation with the IgE.