title: [Chemo-sensitivity test for malignant brain tumors by DNA histogram, in vitro].
abstract: Application of flow cytometric DNA analysis was tried to determine the sensitivity of ACNU, one of nitrosourea derivatives which had been used very commonly for malignant brain tumors, to tumor cells. To evaluate the degree of chemo-sensitivity of ACNU, factor B was introduced, indicating the accumulated cells in SG2M phases after ACNU treatment as the percentage of cells that was previously in the SG2M phases and it revealed that ACNU sensitive cell clones gave much larger values of Factor B than ACNU resistant ones at the concentration of 10 micrograms/ml ACNU treatments. Twenty clinical materials obtained by operation were examined by measuring the degree of values of this Factor B, and the findings indicated that this method would be applicable as a clinical test for chemo-sensitivity of malignant brain tumors, after some improvement of the method.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, National Cancer Center.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nomura
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nagane
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shibui
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D004273:DNA, Neoplasm / Q000032:analysis*; D004354:Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor / Q000379:methods; D005434:Flow Cytometry; D006801:Humans; D015376:Nimustine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D004273:DNA, Neoplasm; D015376:Nimustine