Chemosensitivity Testing of Human Brain Tumours in Vitro
Chemosensitivity Testing of Human Brain Tumours in Vitro
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人脑肿瘤的体外化学敏感性测试
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1982
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通讯作者:
M. Rosenblum
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M. Weizsäcker;M. Rosenblum
A comparison of in vitra methods available to determine drug-induced celllethality suggested that only clonogenic cell (colony formation) assays provide a reliable and dose-dependent index of cell kiU (9). The development of monolayer and soft agar techniques for culturing human tumour cells has encouraged the use of this method (3, 7), but the small numbers of cells that can be obtained from a tumour biopsy and the intrinsic low colony forming efficiency (CFE) of these cells impart severe limitations on drug screening. For an assay based on .cells from biopsy specimens to be maxima1ly useful, a large number of tumour cells that are representative of cells within the tumour must be available for chemosensitivity testing. Cells derived from five malignant glioma biopsy specimens were serially passed in culture to increase their CFE. We compared the res ponse to BCNU of original and passaged cells. These results were compared to each patient's clinical response to 1,3-bis (2-chloroethyl)1-nitrosourea (BCNU) or 1-(2-chloro ethyl)-3-cyclohexyl-1-nitrosourea (CCNU).