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. 1977 Mar;10(2):157-69.
doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2184.1977.tb00141.x.

The application of age distribution theory in the analysis of cytofluorimetric DNA histogram data

J V Watson

The application of age distribution theory in the analysis of cytofluorimetric DNA histogram data

J V Watson. Cell Tissue Kinet. 1977 Mar.

Abstract

Age distribution theory has been employed in a model to analyse a variety of histograms of the DNA content of single cells in samples from experimental tumours growing in tissue culture. The method has produced satisfactory correspondence with the experimental data in which there was a wide variation in the proportions of cells in the intermitotic phases, and generally good agreement between the 3H-thymidine labelling index and the computed proportion in S phase. The model has the capacity to analyse data from populations which contain a proportion of non-cycling cells. However, it is concluded that reliable results for the growth fraction and also for the relative durations of the intermitotic phase times cannot be obtained for the data reported here from the DNA histograms alone. To obtain reliable estimates of the growth fraction the relative durations of the phase time must be known, and conversely, reliable estimates of the relative phase durations can only be obtained if the growth fraction is known.

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