Bio-Protocol (Oct 2013)

Soft Agar Anchorage-independent Assay

  • Li-Ting Wang,
  • Shih-Hsien Hsu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.21769/BioProtoc.947
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 20

Abstract

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Chronic inflammation drives initiation of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), but the underlying mechanisms linking inflammation and tumor formation remain obscure. In this study, soft agar anchorage-independent assay were used to determine tumor transform activity of hepatoma cells with ISX over expression or knockdown in vitro.