Rapid assay for evaluating the chemosensitivity of human tumors in soft agar culture

Cancer Research

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 1982, Pages 2159-2164

  Kern, David H ^b   Morton, Donald L ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; ALKYLATING AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIMETABOLITE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BLEOMYCIN; CARMUSTINE; CISPLATIN; DACARBAZINE; DIHYDROXYANTHRACENEDIONE; DOXORUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; INTERFERON; MELPHALAN; METHOTREXATE; MITOMYCIN C; PHENYLALANINE; RADIOISOTOPE; VINBLASTINE; VINCRISTINE;

BREAST; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; COLON CANCER; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; LARGE INTESTINE; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LUNG CANCER; MELANOMA; MUSCLE; OVARY CANCER; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; THYMIDINE H 3;

AGAR; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DNA REPLICATION; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; KINETICS; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.;

EID: 0020025836     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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