Table of Contents:
  • Xenotransplantation of breast cancers
  • Feeder layers: Co-culture with nonneoplastic cells
  • Drug design and testing: Profiling of antiproliferative agents for cancer therapy using a cell-based methyl-[3h]-thymidine incorporation assay
  • Transfection and DNA-mediated gene transfer
  • Analysis of drug interactions
  • Development of rituximab-resistant B-NHL clones: An in vitro model for studying tumor resistance to monoclonal antibody-mediated immunotherapy
  • Proteomic evaluation of cancer cells: Identification of cell surface proteins
  • Measuring gene expression from cell cultures by quantitative reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction
  • Expression analysis of homeobox genes in leukemia/lymphoma cell lines
  • Flow cytometric DNA analysis of human cancers and cell lines
  • Angiogenesis assays
  • Cell migration and invasion assays
  • Molecular breakpoint analysis of chromosome translocations in cancer cell lines by long distance inverse-PCR
  • Measurement of DNA damage in individual cells using the Single Cell Gel Electrophoresis (Comet) assay
  • Purification of annexin V and its use in the detection of apoptotic cells
  • Real-time cytotoxicity assays
  • Differential staining cytotoxicity assay: A review
  • Cell sensitivity assays: The ATP-based tumor chemosensitivity assay
  • Cell sensitivity assays: The MTT assay
  • Cellular chemosensitivity assays: An overview
  • Isolation of endothelial cells from human tumors
  • Isolation of inflammatory cells from human tumours
  • Establishment and culture of leukemia-lymphoma cell lines
  • Isolation and culture of ovarian cancer cells and cell lines
  • Isolation and culture of squamous cell carcinoma lines
  • Isolation and culture of melanoma and naevus cells and cell lines
  • Isolation and culture of colon cancer cells and cell lines
  • Generation of lung cancer cell line variants by drug selection or cloning
  • Quality assurance and good laboratory practice
  • Elimination of mycoplasmas from infected cell lines using antibiotics
  • Detecting mycoplasma contamination in cell cultures by polymerase chain reaction
  • Cell culture contamination
  • Cytogenetic analysis of cancer cell lines
  • Online verification of human cell line identity by STRDNA typing
  • Characterization and authentication of cancer cell lines: An overview
  • Storage of cell lines
  • Principles of cancer cell culture
  • Cancer biology.