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The Cell Counting Kit-8 is a colorimetric assay kit used to measure cell proliferation and cytotoxicity.

It is a ready-to-use solution that does not require radioisotopes and correlates with the [³H]-thymidine incorporation assay. It can be added directly to the cell media for fast, high-throughput screening without a solubilization process obtaining highly reproducible and accurate results. CCK-8 has shown to achieve higher sensitivity and stability than MTT, MTS or WST-1 

Technical Info/Product Notes:  Employs the tetrazolium salt WST-8 (2-(2-methoxy-4-nitrophenyl)-3-(4-nitrophenyl)-5-(2,4-disulfophenyl)-2H-tetrazolium . monosodium salt), that produces a highly water soluble formazan dye upon biochemical reduction in the presence of an electron carrier, 1-methoxy-PMS. The amount of the yellow colored formazan dye generated by dehydrogenases in cells is directly proportional to the number of viable cells in a culture medium. 

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