background: limiting dilution assay is considered as the gold standard method for quantifying the number of parasites in the animal model of leishmania infection. nowadays, real-time pcr is being increasingly applied to quantify infectious agents. in the present study , a real-time pcr assay was developed to estimate para­site burdens in lymph nodes of leishmania major infected balb/c mice. enu...

purpose: the aim of this study was to test the in vitro sensitivity of lymphocytes of patients with head and neck cancer against gamma irradiation and also to find out if the frequencies of chromosomal aberrations correlate with side effects of radiotherapy. patients and methods : peripheral blood of 101 patients with head and neck cancer was collected before the onset of radiotherapy, cultured...

background: various mtt assay methods are proposed to obtain the cell sur- vival parameters. objective: determining the survival curve characteristics of two cancerous cells of interest based on a common and a novel mtt assay method after exposing them to ionizing radiation. method: a common and a novel mtt assay method were used and compared for obtaining the f10b16 melanoma and 4t1 breast ade...