Predictive Drug Testing on Human Tumor Cells -

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Sommaire:
Clonogenic Assays for Solid Tumors.- In Vitro Growth of Human Malignancies in a Cloning Assay.- Development and Applications of a Human Tumor Colony Assay for Chemosensitivity Testing.- A Replenishable Soft Agar Colony Assay for Human Tumor Sensitivity Testing.- Analysis of Malignant Effusions by Cellular Composition, Proliferation Kinetics, and In Vitro Clonogenicity.- Direct Cloning of Human Ovarian Cancer in Soft Agar: Clinical Limitations and Pharmacologic Applications.- Technical Problems with Soft Agar Colony Formation Assays for In Vitro Chemotherapy Sensitivity Testing of Human Solid Tumors: Mayo Clinic Experience.- Cloning of Human Tumor Cells in Methylcellulose-Containing Medium.- The Effect of Chemotherapy on Human Bone Sarcomas: A Clinical and Experimental Study.- Predictive Tests for Hematological Malignancies.- Experimental Approaches to Outcome Prediction in Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia.- Experimental Approaches to Drug Testing and Clonogenic Growth: Results in Multiple Myeloma and Acute Myelogenous Leukemia.- In Vitro Assessment of Drug Sensitivity in Acute Nonlymphocytic Leukemia.- Short-Term In Vitro Sensitivity Testing in Acute Leukemia.- Non-Clonogenic Assays for Drug Testing.- Development of a Nucleotide Precursor Incorporation Assay for Testing Drug Sensitivity of Human Tumors.- Predictive Relevance for Clinical Outcome of In Vitro Sensitivity Evaluated Through Antimetabolic Assay.- Biochemical Short-Term Predictive Assay: Results of Correlative Trials in Comparison to Other Assays.- In Vitro Chemosensitivity Assay Based on the Concept of Total Tumor Cell Kill.- Evaluation of In Vitro Results.- Predictive Tests and Infrequent Events in Cancer Chemotherapy.- Pharmacologic Pitfalls in the Human Tumor Clonogenic Assay.- Heterogeneity and Variability ofTest Results as Limiting Factors for Predictive Assays.- Interlaboratory Comparison of In Vitro Cloning of Fresh Human Tumor Cells from Malignant Effusions.- Pharmacology, Phase II Studies and New Drug Development.- Evaluation of Schedule Dependency of Anticancer Drugs in the Human Tumor Clonogenic Assay.- In Vitro Effect of Interferon-a on Human Granulocyte/Macrophage Progenitor Cells and Human Clonogenic Tumor Cells..- Effect of Leukocyte Interferons on Cell Proliferation of Human Tumors in Vitro.- Drug Combination Testing with In Vitro Clonal Cultures.- Neutralization of cis-Dichlorodiammineplatinum II and Nitrogen Mustard by Thiols.- Usefulness of the Human Tumor Colony Forming Assay for New Drug Development.- In Vitro Characterization of New Antiestrogens in Human Mammary Tumor Cells.- Modulation of Tumor Growth by Non-Chemotherapeutic Intervention.- Growth Factor Enhancement of the In Vitro Stem Cell Assay.- Improving Techniques for Clonogenic Assays.- Relationship of Steroid Hormone Receptors to the Cloning of Fresh Breast Cancer Tissues.