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M Egawa1, H Hisazumi, T Uchibayashi
1Department of Urology, School of Medicine, Kanazawa University, Japan.
Abstract:
An organ culture system using collagen gel matrix (CGM) was modified and established successfully as a rapid and convenient method for determination of anti-cancer drug sensitivities. The cell viability of a tumor fragment was measured by the reduction of 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) to a colored formazan product, which allowed for quantitative and simple analysis. The sensitivities of KK-47 bladder tumor from nude mice to various anti-cancer drugs tested corresponded closely to those determined in the original CGM assay system using tritiated thymidine, which has a high clinical correlation. Our modified method can be used as a practical and highly reproducible chemosensitivity test in vitro.