A comprehensive review on anticancer evaluation techniques

Bioorg Chem. 2024 Jan:142:106973. doi: 10.1016/j.bioorg.2023.106973. Epub 2023 Nov 15.

Abstract

The development of effective anticancer strategies and the improvement of our understanding of cancer need analytical tools. Utilizing a variety of analytical approaches while investigating anti-cancer medicines gives us a thorough understanding of the traits and mechanisms concerned to cancer cells, which enables us to develop potent treatments to combat them. The importance of anticancer research may be attributed to various analytical techniques that contributes to the identification of therapeutic targets and the assessment of medication efficacy, which are crucial things in expanding our understanding of cancer biology. The study looks at methods that are often used in cancer research, including cell viability assays, clonogenic assay, flow cytometry, 2D electrophoresis, microarray, immunofluorescence, western blot caspase activation assay, bioinformatics, etc. The fundamentals, applications, and how each technique analytical advances our understanding of cancer are briefly reviewed.

Keywords: Anticancer studies; Biomarkers; Cell migration; Cell viability assays; Drug efficacy; Genomics; Molecular mechanisms; Proteomics.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Cell Death
  • Computational Biology
  • Humans
  • Neoplasms* / drug therapy