47+ Colony Formation Assay 원리 Background. In several reports i have seen that cells are plated after treatment with the compounds but some authors also seem to. Clonogenic assay or colony formation assay is an in vitro cell survival assay based on the ability of a single cell to grow into a colony.
Tips are provided throughout the video to help optimize the assay procedure, including tricks to accurately evaluate and score colony formations.
I'm trying to perform the colony formation assay (or clonogenic assay) with a cancer cell line to study the effect of dna repair inhibitors on the cytotoxicity of chemotherapeutic drugs. The colony is defined to consist of at least 50 cells. Single tumorigenic cell with a high proliferation rate forms colonies in the soft agar plate in a few weeks. In several reports i have seen that cells are plated after treatment with the compounds but some authors also seem to.


