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Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor

Medical Definition:	Methods of investigating the effectiveness of anticancer cytotoxic drugs and biologic inhibitors. These include in vitro cell-kill models and cytostatic dye exclusion tests as well as in vivo measurement of tumor growth parameters in laboratory animals.
Guide Notes:	IM when general; NIM when with specific antineoplastic agent (IM)
Also Called:	Dye Exclusion Assays, Antitumor
Previously Indexed:	Antineoplastic Agents or specific (1966-1987),Cell Line (1971-1987),Colony-Forming Units Assay (1979-1987),Drug Screening (1974-1987),Neoplasms, Experimental or specific (1966-1987),Tumor Stem Cell Assay (1984-1987)

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