Application of the MTT assay to human prostate cancer cell lines in vitro: Establishment of test conditions and assessment of hormone‐stimulated growth and drug‐induced cytostatic and cytotoxic effects

The Prostate

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 99-110

  Romijn, J C ^a   Verkoelen, C F ^a   Schroeder, F H ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

chemosensitivity testing; colorimetric assay; proliferation assay

Indexed keywords

CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL CULTURE; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PROSTATE CANCER;

ANDROGENS; CELL COUNT; CELL DIVISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG SCREENING ASSAYS, ANTITUMOR; DYES; EFLORNITHINE; ESTRENES; HUMAN; MALE; METRIBOLONE; MITOGUAZONE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TETRAZOLIUM SALTS; THIAZOLES; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0023925702     PISSN: 02704137     EISSN: 10970045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pros.2990120112     Document Type: Article

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