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The Soft Agar Colony Formation Assay

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10.3791/51998-v

October 27th, 2014

October 27th, 2014

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1Department of Hematology and Oncology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep, and Allergy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 3Jesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center

The soft agar colony formation assay is a method used to confirm cellular anchorage-independent growth in vitro. The goal of this protocol is to illustrate a stringent method for the detection of the tumorigenic potential of transformed cells and the tumor suppressive effects of proteins on transformed cells.

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