adhesion assay

[Mohadese DastPeyman]

Dear Dr.Zbigniew Rudzki

I'm Mohadese Dastpeyman,MSC student of molecular cell biology at tehran 
university,I saw your direction to Sebastien PARIS about adhesion assay at 
this site
http://www.bio.net/bionet/mm/methods/1998-August/069662.html
as you are well experienced in adhesion assay would you please help me?
My thesis is about effect of a herbal drug on metastasis and invasion 
properties of MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells.
I want to test cell adhesion assay for this cells with collagen type 2.
now ,as you regarded before,there are a lot of protocols and I 'm wondering 
between two of them  about counting of the remaining cells.some prptpcpls 
suggested adding MTT,and some of them suggested fixing cells with christal 
violet and then lysed cells with triton x 100 ,then read the absorbance at 
550nm.
your suggestion is important to me,what do you thimk ?which of them is 
better ?
is there any protocol that you accepted it as a standardize protocol?
 
With regards
Mohadese Dastpeyman
 
Department of molecular cell biology
Tehran University of  Sciences,
Tehran,
Iran,
Tel:+989112454702