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In vitro miniaturized colorimeteric assays are extensively used in the determination of a substance’s ability to enhance cell growth or promote cell death. The widespread use of colorimeteric endpoint assays in the determination of cell number, the most common measure of cell growth, is due to their simplicity and sensitivity and also to their ability to be scaled up using a semi-automated high-throughput system.
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O’Connor, R., Heenan, M., Duffy, C., Clynes, M. (1998). Miniaturized In Vitro Methods in Toxicity Testing. In: Clynes, M. (eds) Animal Cell Culture Techniques. Springer Lab Manual. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80412-0_22
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