Abstract:
:The relationship between colony numbers and concentration of cells plated is an important parameter of clonogenic assay systems. The cloning efficiency for an ideal sample should be independent of cell concentration, thus giving a straight line through the origin when colony numbers are plotted against cell concentration. A simple statistical method has been developed to test if this is the case for individual tumour samples. Colony data from 51 freshly obtained tumour samples, which had sufficient cells to plate 3 or more dilutions and gave at least 20 colonies per plate at one or more of the dilutions, were tested. The results indicated that colony formation was linear for 27 (53%) of the samples. The remaining 24 samples could be classified into 2 groups: type I, in which cloning efficiencies increased with increasing cell concentration and type II, which had reduced cloning efficiencies at high cell concentrations. Fifteen (29%) of the samples had type I non-linearity and 9 (18%) exhibited non-linearity of type II. These findings indicate that the relationship between colonies and cells plated should be examined for each biopsy sample particularly in each experiment where the effects of cytotoxic drugs are tested.
journal_name
Br J Cancerjournal_title
British journal of cancerauthors
Eliason JF,Aapro MS,Decrey D,Brink-Petersen Mdoi
10.1038/bjc.1985.195subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1985-09-01 00:00:00pages
311-8issue
3eissn
0007-0920issn
1532-1827journal_volume
52pub_type
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journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/bjc.1978.258
更新日期:1978-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6603779
更新日期:2007-06-04 00:00:00
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journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/bjc.1998.23
更新日期:1998-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/bjc.1990.241
更新日期:1990-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/bjc.1980.9
更新日期:1980-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/bjc.1993.379
更新日期:1993-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/bjc.1988.66
更新日期:1988-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/bjc.1986.224
更新日期:1986-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6604485
更新日期:2008-08-05 00:00:00
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journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/bjc.2014.457
更新日期:2014-10-14 00:00:00
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journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究,随机对照试验
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更新日期:2011-10-11 00:00:00
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journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/bjc.2017.206
更新日期:2017-08-08 00:00:00
abstract::Eighteen patients with inoperable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) were treated with intrahepatic arterial yttrium-90 microspheres. All these patients showed a lung shunting below 15% and a tumour-to-normal ratio higher than 2 as determined by diagnostic technetium-99m macroaggregated albumin (Tc-MAA) gamma scintigraphy...
journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:10.1038/bjc.1994.436
更新日期:1994-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6601633
更新日期:2004-03-08 00:00:00
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journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/bjc.1997.511
更新日期:1997-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/bjc.1994.184
更新日期:1994-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/bjc.2011.270
更新日期:2011-09-06 00:00:00
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journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/bjc.1981.120
更新日期:1981-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::The potential antitumoral effect of granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) led us to evaluate GM-CSF alone or with dacarbazine (DTIC) in metastatic melanoma in first line randomized phase II. Treatment was arm A: GM-CSF: 5 microg kg(-1), bid, 14 consecutive days every 21 days and arm B: GM-CSF: 5 mi...
journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,多中心研究,随机对照试验
doi:10.1054/bjoc.2001.2120
更新日期:2001-11-16 00:00:00
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journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:10.1038/bjc.1998.627
更新日期:1998-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/bjc.1987.122
更新日期:1987-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/bjc.1994.45
更新日期:1994-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/bjc.1977.156
更新日期:1977-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::The distribution of labelled cells through 5 different mouse tumours was measured after a single injection of [3H]-thymidine [( 3H]-TdR) or [3H]-deoxyuridine [( 3H]-UdR). All the tumours had areas where the percentage of labelled cells (the labelling index, LI) was high and areas where the LI was very low. The total a...
journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/bjc.1985.3
更新日期:1985-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/bjc.1975.279
更新日期:1975-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::The ribosome-inactivating proteins, bryodin, from Bryonia dioica, and momordin, from Momordica charantia, were coupled by a disulphide bond to a monoclonal anti-Thy 1.1 antibody (OX7). Both immunotoxins were specifically cytotoxic to the Thy 1.1-expressing mouse lymphoma cell line AKR-A in vitro. The OX7-bryodin immun...
journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/bjc.1988.258
更新日期:1988-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/bjc.2012.76
更新日期:2012-03-27 00:00:00
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journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/bjc.2013.518
更新日期:2013-09-17 00:00:00
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journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1038/bjc.2011.104
更新日期:2011-04-12 00:00:00
abstract::Patients with refractory metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC) were enrolled in a phase II study with teniposide (VM26) and cyclosporin A (CSA) to investigate (1) the effect of CSA on the response rate to VM26; and (2) the effect of CSA on the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of VM26. Sixteen patients initially r...
journal_title:British journal of cancer
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:10.1038/bjc.1997.127
更新日期:1997-01-01 00:00:00