MTS Cell Proliferation Assay

Cell proliferation is a vital indicator to understand the mechanisms in action of certain genes, proteins and pathways that involve in cell survival or death. Furthermore, cell proliferation plays an important role in regulating the development of bodies and organs, especially in all multicellular organisms. If cells proliferate unsystematically, bodies or organs would become mere cell masses and proper cell proliferation is essential for maintenance of sizes, morphology and functions of organs. Cell proliferation is also involved in many important processes during development including oncogenesis, aging and so on. From these aspects, cell proliferation is significant for development and also related biological areas and many methods has been development for the determination of cell proliferation. MTS assay is one of the most widely used methods for the quantification of cell proliferation.