• Department of General Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100730, China;
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Objective  To evaluate the utility of collagen-gel droplet embedded-culture drug sensitivity test (CD-DST) in pancreatic carcinoma cell by compared with WST-8. Methods  The chemosensitivity to 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), gemzar (GEM) and oxaliplatin (OXA) of pancreatic adenocarcinoma cells SW1990, PCT-3 and ASPC-1 were tested by WST-8 and CD-DST respectively. Results  In a certain living cell number range (500-10 000), there was a linear correlation (r=0.991 1, P<0.05) between the integral optical density in CD-DST and the cell number. The inhibition ratios of three kinds of cell growth tested by CD-DST were higher than those tested by WST-8 (P<0.05). The results of drug chemosensitivity to 5-FU, GEM and OXA detected by two methods were uniform. Conclusion  The CD-DST can be used to assay the drug chemosensitivity in vitro for pancreatic carcinoma.

Citation: ZHOU Tao,HU Ya,LIAO Quan,ZHAO Yupei. Comparative Study of Two Methods of Drug Chemosensitivity Assay in Vitro for Tumor Cells. CHINESE JOURNAL OF BASES AND CLINICS IN GENERAL SURGERY, 2008, 15(11): 825-828. doi: Copy