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A Fluorescence-Based Assay for Measuring Glucose Uptake in Living Melanoma Cells
Jelena Grahovac1, Marijana Pavlović2, Kristina Živić2
1Experimental Oncology Department, Institute for Oncology and Radiology of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia. jelena.grahovac@ncrc.ac.rs.
Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|October 25, 2026
Abstract:
Melanoma cells have high glycolytic capacity. Glucose uptake is a key rate-limiting step in glucose utilization. Here we describe a simple protocol for measuring direct glucose uptake in living melanoma cells by flow cytometry.

