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triphenyltetrazolium

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Description

Triphenyltetrazolium chloride (TTC) is a colorless compound that is widely used as a redox indicator in biological research. It is a tetrazolium salt that is reduced to a red formazan dye by metabolically active cells. This reaction is used to assess the viability of cells and tissues, and to study the activity of enzymes that catalyze redox reactions. TTC is also used in the production of plastics and dyes. Synthesis of TTC involves reacting benzoyl chloride with sodium azide. The importance of TTC lies in its ability to stain living cells. This allows researchers to differentiate between viable and non-viable cells, which is crucial for studying cell viability, toxicity, and other biological processes. Research using TTC focuses on understanding cellular metabolism, assessing the effects of various treatments on cell viability, and evaluating the efficacy of drugs. TTC is studied because it is a valuable tool for investigating the physiological state of cells and tissues.'

triphenyltetrazolium: RN given refers to parent cpd [Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), National Library of Medicine, extracted Dec-2023]

2,3,5-triphenyltetrazolium : An organic cation that is tetrazole carrying three phenyl substituents at positions 2, 3 and 5. [Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI), Hastings J, Owen G, Dekker A, Ennis M, Kale N, Muthukrishnan V, Turner S, Swainston N, Mendes P, Steinbeck C. (2016). ChEBI in 2016: Improved services and an expanding collection of metabolites. Nucleic Acids Res]

Cross-References

ID SourceID
PubMed CID9284
CHEMBL ID1185234
CHEBI ID78021
SCHEMBL ID491438
MeSH IDM0054429

Synonyms (22)

Synonym
triphenyltetrazolium
CBDIVE_016098
IFLAB1_000263
inchi=1/c19h15n4/c1-4-10-16(11-5-1)19-20-22(17-12-6-2-7-13-17)23(21-19)18-14-8-3-9-15-18/h1-15h/q+
IDI1_008482
AKOS001482341
2,3,5-triphenyltetrazol-2-ium
2h-tetrazolium, 2,3,5-triphenyl-
902-00-1
CCG-103300
2,3,5-triphenyl-2h-tetrazolium, chloride
unii-7ol20ret2i
7ol20ret2i ,
2,3,5-triphenyl-3h-tetraazol-2-ium
AE-641/01942025
CHEMBL1185234
chebi:78021 ,
2,3,5-triphenyltetrazolium
2,3,5-triphenyl-2h-tetrazol-3-ium
SCHEMBL491438
2,3,5-triphenyl-2h-1,2,3,4-tetraazol-3-ium
DTXSID30861848

Research Excerpts

Effects

ExcerptReferenceRelevance
"Triphenyltetrazolium chloride has been used to detect irreversibly damaged tissue after regional ischemia and reperfusion. "( Histochemical studies: inability of triphenyltetrazolium chloride nonstaining to define tissue necrosis.
Allen, BS; Barnard, RJ; Buckberg, GD; Leaf, J; Okamoto, F; Rosenkranz, ER; Sjostrand, F; Vinten-Johansen, J, 1986
)
1.99

Toxicity

ExcerptReferenceRelevance
" The studies are mainly confined to Gram negative bacteria because of an important toxic effect of tetrazolium salts on Gram positive bacteria."( Diminution of 2,3,5-triphenyltetrazolium chloride toxicity on Listeria monocytogenes growth by iron source addition to the culture medium.
Flandrois, JP; Junillon, T, 2014
)
0.73
" Therefore, the method is not useful for screening of toxic or phototoxic effects either."( Comparison of various methods to analyse toxic effects in human skin explants: Rediscovery of TTC assay.
Cukr, M; Lichnovská, R; Rajnochová Svobodová, A; Ulrichová, J; Vostálová, J; Zálešák, B, 2018
)
0.48
"A simple generic toxicity method (test) is proposed using baker's yeast to mediate the reduction of the colourless triphenyltetrazolium chloride (TTC) to red, 1,3,5-triphenyl formazan, which can be extracted by dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), enabling the identification of reducible toxic compounds (e."( YTOX: a rapid toxicity test based on the dehydrogenase activity of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for detection of contaminants in water samples.
Andrino, FG; da Silva, APM; de Lira, SP; Duarte, KMR; Ferrarezi, JA; Gomes, LH; Kamogawa, MY; Laguna, SE; Tavares, ACL, 2019
)
0.72

Bioavailability

ExcerptReferenceRelevance
" The orally bioavailable lead imidazolopiperazine confers complete causal prophylactic protection (15 milligrams/kilogram) in rodent models of malaria and shows potent in vivo blood-stage therapeutic activity."( Imaging of Plasmodium liver stages to drive next-generation antimalarial drug discovery.
Barnes, SW; Bonamy, GM; Bopp, SE; Borboa, R; Bright, AT; Chatterjee, A; Che, J; Cohen, S; Dharia, NV; Diagana, TT; Fidock, DA; Froissard, P; Gagaring, K; Gettayacamin, M; Glynne, RJ; Gordon, P; Groessl, T; Kato, N; Kuhen, KL; Lee, MC; Mazier, D; McNamara, CW; Meister, S; Nagle, A; Nam, TG; Plouffe, DM; Richmond, W; Roland, J; Rottmann, M; Sattabongkot, J; Schultz, PG; Tuntland, T; Walker, JR; Winzeler, EA; Wu, T; Zhou, B; Zhou, Y, 2011
)
0.37

Dosage Studied

ExcerptRelevanceReference
"An ex vivo brain protease inhibition assay established pharmacodynamic dosing parameters for MDL 28,170."( Six-hour window of opportunity for calpain inhibition in focal cerebral ischemia in rats.
Chmielewski, PA; Johnson, MP; Koehl, JR; Linnik, MD; Markgraf, CG; McCarty, DR; Medhi, S; Velayo, NL, 1998
)
0.3
" Experimental rats were divided into 12 groups according to: CsA administration time (immediately after occlusion or immediately after reperfusion); dosage (between 10 and 50 mg/kg); route (i."( Restricted clinical efficacy of cyclosporin A on rat transient middle cerebral artery occlusion.
Isshiki, A; Matsumoto, S; Watanabe, Y; Wieloch, T, 2002
)
0.31
"2 mg/l approximately 2 mg/l) protected brain slices from OGD injury in a dosage dependent manner as demonstrated by increased A 490 value of TTC, decreased PI intensity and LDH release."( Neuroprotective effects of cactus polysaccharide on oxygen and glucose deprivation induced damage in rat brain slices.
Guo, L; He, Z; Huang, L; Huang, X; Li, Q; Lü, Q; Zhang, Y, 2008
)
0.35
" However the impact of their high dose related side effects on their low dosage related neuroprotectivity is still unknown."( Olanzapine does not aggrevate ischemic neuronal injury by focal cerebral ischemia: a dose related restriction of the neuroprotective effect?
Kilic, E; Yuluğ, B, 2009
)
0.35
" One day after injection, rats were euthanized with their hearts excised for qualitative and quantitative studies by means of microscopic fluorescence examination to decide the dosage of hypericin."( Hypericin as a marker for determination of myocardial viability in a rat model of myocardial infarction.
Gao, M; Jiang, C; Jiang, X; Li, Y; Ni, Y; Sun, Z; Wang, J; Wang, X; Yao, N; Zhang, J; Zhang, X,
)
0.13
" Despite their limitations, microbiological assays are widely employed to determine antibiotic potency of pharmaceutical dosage forms, since they provide a measure of biological activity."( Development, optimization and validation of a rapid colorimetric microplate bioassay for neomycin sulfate in pharmaceutical drug products.
Francisco, FL; Lourenço, FR; Pinto, Tde J; Saviano, AM, 2014
)
0.4
" The microplate bioassay was optimized regarding the responses of low, medium, and high doses of linezolid, negative and positive controls, and the slope, intercept, and correlation coefficient of dose-response curves."( Development, Optimization, and Validation of a Microplate Bioassay for Relative Potency Determination of Linezolid Using a Design Space Concept, and its Measurement Uncertainty.
Francisco, FL; Lourenço, FR; Ostronoff, CS; Saviano, AM,
)
0.13
[information is derived through text-mining from research data collected from National Library of Medicine (NLM), extracted Dec-2023]

Drug Classes (1)

ClassDescription
organic cationAny organic ion with a net positive charge.
[compound class information is derived from Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI), Hastings J, Owen G, Dekker A, Ennis M, Kale N, Muthukrishnan V, Turner S, Swainston N, Mendes P, Steinbeck C. (2016). ChEBI in 2016: Improved services and an expanding collection of metabolites. Nucleic Acids Res]

Bioassays (6)

Assay IDTitleYearJournalArticle
AID1794808Fluorescence-based screening to identify small molecule inhibitors of Plasmodium falciparum apicoplast DNA polymerase (Pf-apPOL).2014Journal of biomolecular screening, Jul, Volume: 19, Issue:6
A High-Throughput Assay to Identify Inhibitors of the Apicoplast DNA Polymerase from Plasmodium falciparum.
AID1794808Fluorescence-based screening to identify small molecule inhibitors of Plasmodium falciparum apicoplast DNA polymerase (Pf-apPOL).
AID754517Cytotoxicity against human DLD1 cells harboring mutant KRAS2013Journal of medicinal chemistry, Jul-11, Volume: 56, Issue:13
Targeting mutant KRAS for anticancer therapeutics: a review of novel small molecule modulators.
AID754516Selectivity ratio of IC50 for mutant KRAS allele-deficient human DLD1 cells to IC50 for human DLD1 cells harboring mutant KRAS2013Journal of medicinal chemistry, Jul-11, Volume: 56, Issue:13
Targeting mutant KRAS for anticancer therapeutics: a review of novel small molecule modulators.
AID754518Cytotoxicity against mutant KRAS allele-deficient human DLD1 cells2013Journal of medicinal chemistry, Jul-11, Volume: 56, Issue:13
Targeting mutant KRAS for anticancer therapeutics: a review of novel small molecule modulators.
AID602156Novartis GNF Liver Stage Dataset: Malariabox Annotation2011Science (New York, N.Y.), Dec-09, Volume: 334, Issue:6061
Imaging of Plasmodium liver stages to drive next-generation antimalarial drug discovery.
[information is prepared from bioassay data collected from National Library of Medicine (NLM), extracted Dec-2023]

Research

Studies (654)

TimeframeStudies, This Drug (%)All Drugs %
pre-1990170 (25.99)18.7374
1990's116 (17.74)18.2507
2000's236 (36.09)29.6817
2010's123 (18.81)24.3611
2020's9 (1.38)2.80
[information is prepared from research data collected from National Library of Medicine (NLM), extracted Dec-2023]

Market Indicators

Research Demand Index: 49.54

According to the monthly volume, diversity, and competition of internet searches for this compound, as well the volume and growth of publications, there is estimated to be strong demand-to-supply ratio for research on this compound.

MetricThis Compound (vs All)
Research Demand Index49.54 (24.57)
Research Supply Index6.56 (2.92)
Research Growth Index4.47 (4.65)
Search Engine Demand Index80.80 (26.88)
Search Engine Supply Index2.00 (0.95)

This Compound (49.54)

All Compounds (24.57)

Study Types

Publication TypeThis drug (%)All Drugs (%)
Trials1 (0.14%)5.53%
Reviews4 (0.57%)6.00%
Case Studies2 (0.28%)4.05%
Observational0 (0.00%)0.25%
Other700 (99.01%)84.16%
[information is prepared from research data collected from National Library of Medicine (NLM), extracted Dec-2023]