Abstract:
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:The ratio of live cells to total cells in a sample is a definition for cell viability or cell toxicity. The assessment of the viable cells plays a critical role in all processes of the cell culture workflows. Overall, they are used to evaluate the survival of cells and also to optimize culture or experimental conditions following treatment with different agents or compounds, like during a drug screen. In most cases, the measurement of cell viability is the primary purpose of the experiments, for example, in pharmaceutical studies to evaluate agents' toxicity. METHODS:A literature research was conducted on cell viability assays in MEDLINE (PubMed), Web of Science and Scopus. RESULTS:There is a wide range of cell viability assays and different parameters such as cost, speed, and complexity of a test effect to determine the choosing method. However each method has some advantages and disadvantages and none of them is not 100% perfect method. CONCLUSION:Accordingly, it seems that the simultaneous utility of at least two assays will cover each other disadvantages to demonstrate the effects of different agents on different cell types. For instance, when one assay measures cell metabolic health, the other one checks cells permeability. Therefore by this strategy a researcher can report with more confidence the effective doses of the examined therapeutic agents.
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Anticancer Agents Med Chemjournal_title
Anti-cancer agents in medicinal chemistryauthors
Nozhat Z,Khalaji MS,Hedayati M,Kia SKdoi
10.2174/1871520621999201230202614subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2020-12-30 00:00:00eissn
1871-5206issn
1875-5992pii
ACAMC-EPUB-112851pub_type
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journal_title:Anti-cancer agents in medicinal chemistry
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journal_title:Anti-cancer agents in medicinal chemistry
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journal_title:Anti-cancer agents in medicinal chemistry
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pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.2174/1871520620666200811112156
更新日期:2020-08-10 00:00:00
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journal_title:Anti-cancer agents in medicinal chemistry
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期:2012-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Anti-cancer agents in medicinal chemistry
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.2174/187152009789124655
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更新日期:2018-01-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2020-01-01 00:00:00
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doi:10.2174/1871520620999200730165829
更新日期:2020-07-30 00:00:00
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journal_title:Anti-cancer agents in medicinal chemistry
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更新日期:2019-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Anti-cancer agents in medicinal chemistry
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更新日期:2019-01-01 00:00:00
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