The resazurin reduction assay can distinguish cytotoxic from cytostatic compounds in spheroid screening assays

Journal of Biomolecular Screening

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1047-1059

  Walzl, Angelika ^a   Unger, Christine ^a,b   Kramer, Nina ^a,b   Unterleuthner, Daniela ^a   Scherzer, Martin ^a   Hengstschläger, Markus ^a   Schwanzer Pfeiffer, Dagmar ^b   Dolznig, Helmut ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b DANUBE UNIVERSITY KREMS   (Austria)

Author keywords

3D cell culture; cellular screening; rezazurin to resorufin reduction assay; spheroid

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CASPASE 7; CYTOSTATIC AGENT; EDETIC ACID; EGTAZIC ACID; PROTEIN ZO1; RESAZURIN; RESORUFIN; STAUROSPORINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; OXAZINE DERIVATIVE; XANTHENE DERIVATIVE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS ASSAY; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL VIABILITY; COLON CANCER; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MULTICELLULAR SPHEROID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESAZURIN ASSAY; TIGHT JUNCTION; TUMOR SPHEROID; APOPTOSIS; BIOASSAY; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMISTRY; DRUG SCREENING; HT-29 CELL LINE; NEOPLASMS; PROCEDURES; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; APOPTOSIS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; DRUG SCREENING ASSAYS, ANTITUMOR; EDETIC ACID; EGTAZIC ACID; HT29 CELLS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEOPLASMS; OXAZINES; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR; STAUROSPORINE; XANTHENES;

EID: 84904698416     PISSN: 10870571     EISSN: 1552454X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1087057114532352     Document Type: Article

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