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MeSH Heading: Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor
Tree Number(s): E01.370.225.500.388; E05.200.500.388; E05.242.417; E05.337.550.200
Unique ID: D004354
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004354
Annotation: IM when general; NIM when with specific antineoplastic agent (IM)
Scope Note: 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.
Entry Term(s): Anti-Cancer Drug Screens; Anticancer Drug Sensitivity Tests; Antitumor Drug Screening Assays; Antitumor Drug Screens; Cancer Drug Tests; Drug Screening Tests, Tumor-Specific; Dye Exclusion Assays, Antitumor; Tumor-Specific Drug Screening Tests
Previous Indexing: 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)
Public MeSH Note: 88
History Note: 88
Date Established: 1988/01/01
Date of Entry: 1987/05/08
Revision Date: 2015/06/22

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Concept UI: M0006844
Scope Note: 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.
Terms: Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor Preferred Term
Term UI T013299
Date01/01/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1988); Antitumor Drug Screening Assays
Term UI T013298
Date05/08/1987
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID UNK (19XX); Tumor-Specific Drug Screening Tests
Term UI T013300
Date05/08/1987
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID UNK (19XX); Drug Screening Tests, Tumor-Specific
Term UI T013301
Date05/08/1987
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID UNK (19XX); Antitumor Drug Screens
Term UI T401021
Date11/30/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2001); Anti-Cancer Drug Screens
Term UI T401022
Date11/30/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2001); Anticancer Drug Sensitivity Tests
Term UI T013297
Date05/08/1987
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID UNK (19XX); Cancer Drug Tests
Term UI T407789
Date02/23/2000
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2001)

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