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The identification of drug targets for pharmaceutical screening can be greatly accelerated by gene databases and expression studies. The identification of lead-ing compounds from growing libraries is realized by high throughput screening platforms.
Subsequently, for optimization and validation of identified leading compounds studies of their functionality have to be carried out, and just these functionality tests are a limiting factor. A rigorous preselection of identified compounds by in vitro cellular screening is necessary prior to using the drug candidates for the further time consuming and expensive stage, e.g. in animal models.
Our efforts are focused to the parallel development, adaptation and integration of different microelectronic sensors into miniaturized biochips for a multiparametric, functional on-line analysis of living cells in physiologically environments. Parallel and on-line acquisition of data related to different cellular targets is required for advanced stages of drug screening and for economizing animal tests.
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Received: 28 July 2000 / Revised: 11 October 2000 / Accepted: 18 October 2000
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Ehret, R., Baumann, W., Brischwein, M. et al. Multiparametric microsensor chips for screening applications. Fresenius J Anal Chem 369, 30–35 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002160000628
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002160000628