Evaluation of a Soluble Tetrazolium/Formazan Assay for Cell Growth and Drug Sensitivity in Culture Using Human and Other Tumor Cell Lines

Cancer Research

Volumn 48, Issue 17, 1988, Pages 4827-4833

  Scudiero, Dominic A ^a   Shoemaker, Robert H ^b   Paull, Kenneth D ^b   Monks, Anne ^a   Tierney, Siobhan ^a   Nofziger, Thomas H ^a   Currens, Michael J ^a   Seniff, Donna ^a   Boyd, Michael R ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMAZAN; TETRAZOLIUM;

ANIMAL CELL; CELL CULTURE; DRUG SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; METHODOLOGY; MICROASSAY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR CELL LINE;

AZO COMPOUNDS; CELL DIVISION; DOXORUBICIN; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; FORMAZANS; HUMAN; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TETRAZOLIUM SALTS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0023792919     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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