In vitro chemosensitivity testing of human tumours by collagen gel droplet culture and image analysis

Anticancer Research

Volumn 16, Issue 4 A, 1996, Pages 1925-1930

  Tanigawa, Nobuhiko ^a   Kitaoka, Akihiro ^a   Yamakawa, Miyoko ^a   Tanisaka, Keizo ^b   Kobayashi, Hisayasu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^b Nitta Gelatin Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemosensitivity; Collagen gel droplet culture; Epithelial membrane antigen; Human tumour; Image analysis; In vitro cell growth; Vimentin

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; COLLAGEN GEL; ETOPOSIDE; FILDESIN; FLUOROURACIL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VINDESINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CELL CLONE; CELL CULTURE; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DRUG SENSITIVITY; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG CANCER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID TUMOR; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE; CISPLATIN; COLLAGEN; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; ETOPOSIDE; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VINDESINE;

EID: 0029763896     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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