Improvement of in vitro chemosensitivity assay for human solid tumours by application of a preculture using collagen matrix

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 295-299

  Kitaoka, Akihiro ^a   Muraoka, Ryusuke ^a   Tanigawa, Nobuhiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; THYMIDINE;

ARTICLE; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; SOLID TUMOR;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CELL SURVIVAL; COLLAGEN; DNA; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; THYMIDINE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0031038112     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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