MTT different from thymidine - (May/12/2011 )

Hi,
I did proliferation assay that showed decrease in thymidine intake but in the MTT I got no change
what does it means?
thanks
Michal

michalcn on Thu May 12 19:50:16 2011 said:

Thymidine incorporation reflects nucleic acid synthesis whilst MTT metabolic activity. Your cell may have stopped synthesizing NA but still be alive and metabolically active.