Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.