The neutral red assay can be used to evaluate cell viability during autophagy or in an acidic microenvironment in vitro

Exploring and comparing adverse events between PARP inhibitors

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Role of intraperitoneal chemotherapy in ovarian cancer in the platinum-taxane-based era: A meta-analysis

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Safety and Biologic Response of Pre-operative Autophagy Inhibition in Combination with Gemcitabine in Patients with Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma

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Targeting Acidity in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma: Multispectral Optoacoustic Tomography Detects pH-Low Insertion Peptide Probes In Vivo

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Acidic extracellular pH neutralizes the autophagy-inhibiting activity of chloroquine

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Long-term results of a randomised phase III trial of weekly versus three-weekly paclitaxel/platinum induction therapy followed by standard or extended three-weekly paclitaxel/platinum in European patients with advanced epithelial ovarian cancer

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Chloroquine Targets Pancreatic Cancer Stem Cells via Inhibition of CXCR4 and Hedgehog Signaling

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Inhibition of autophagy with chloroquine is effective in melanoma

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A Simple High-Content Cell Cycle Assay Reveals Frequent Discrepancies between Cell Number and ATP and MTS Proliferation Assays

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Predictive Modeling of In Vivo Response to Gemcitabine in Pancreatic Cancer

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Autophagy Is a Protective Mechanism for Human Melanoma Cells under Acidic Stress

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Chloroquine or Chloroquine-PI3K/Akt Pathway Inhibitor Combinations Strongly Promote γ-Irradiation-Induced Cell Death in Primary Stem-Like Glioma Cells

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Autophagy positively regulates the CD44+CD24-/lowbreast cancer stem-like phenotype

(2011) Sílvia Cufí et al.   CELL CYCLE

Autophagy and endocrine resistance in breast cancer

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First-Line Therapy in Ovarian Cancer Trials

(2011) Tate Thigpen et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GYNECOLOGICAL CANCER

A Simple Protocol for Using a LDH-Based Cytotoxicity Assay to Assess the Effects of Death and Growth Inhibition at the Same Time

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Influences of Acidic Conditions on Formazan Assay: A Cautionary Note

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Discrepancies between metabolic activity and DNA content as tool to assess cell proliferation in cancer research

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Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring cell death in higher eukaryotes

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The Double-Edged Sword of Autophagy Modulation in Cancer

(2009) E. White et al.   CLINICAL CANCER RESEARCH

Does autophagy have a license to kill mammalian cells?

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Neutral red uptake assay for the estimation of cell viability/cytotoxicity

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