New colorimetric cytotoxicity assay for anticancer-drug screening

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 82, Issue 13, 1990, Pages 1107-1112

  Skehan, Philip ^a   Storeng, Ritsa ^a   Scudiero, Dominic ^b   Monks, Anne ^b   Mcmahon, James ^a   Vistica, David ^a   Warren, Jonathan T ^a   Bokesch, Heidi ^b   Kenney, Susan ^a   Boyd, Michael R ^c  

^a Division of Cancer Treatment   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; COLORIMETRY; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; CALIBRATION; CELL COUNT; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLORIMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG SCREENING ASSAYS, ANTITUMOR; DYES; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MICROCHEMISTRY; RHODAMINES; TRICHLOROACETIC ACID; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0025341331     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/82.13.1107     Document Type: Article

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