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Cellosaurus Vx2 (CVCL_3864)

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Cell line name Vx2
Synonyms VX2; Vx-2; VX-2
Accession CVCL_3864
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: Vx2 (RRID:CVCL_3864)
Comments Part of: Naval Biosciences Laboratory (NBL) collection (transferred to ATCC in 1982).
Characteristics: Established from the VX2 (V2) transplantable tumor which was initiated in 1938.
Doubling time: ~2-2.5 days (PubMed=6126038).
Transformant: NCBI_TaxID; 10271; Rabbit fibroma virus (SFV).
Disease Rabbit neoplasm (NCIt: C134989)
Species of origin Oryctolagus cuniculus (Rabbit) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9986)
Sex of cell Male
Category Cancer cell line
Publications

PubMed=14955572; DOI=10.1084/jem.96.2.159; PMCID=PMC2136136
Rous F.P., Kidd J.G., Smith W.E.
Experiments on the cause of the rabbit carcinomas derived from virus-induced papillomas. II. Loss by the Vx2 carcinoma of the power to immunize hosts against the papilloma virus.
J. Exp. Med. 96:159-174(1952)

PubMed=6126038; DOI=10.1007/BF02892859
Easty D.M., Easty G.C.
Establishment of an in vitro cell line from the rabbit VX2 carcinoma.
Virchows Arch. B. Cell. Pathol. Incl. Mol. Pathol. 39:333-337(1982)

PubMed=6500159; DOI=10.1159/000163283
Gershwin M.E., Lentz D., Owens R.B.
Relationship between karyotype of tissue culture lines and tumorigenicity in nude mice.
Exp. Cell Biol. 52:361-370(1984)

Cross-references
Cell line collections (Providers) ATCC; CRL-6503 - Discontinued
BCRJ; 0297
CCTCC; GDC0165
CLS; 609374 - Discontinued
ECACC; 90030912
NCI-DTP; VX-2
TKG; TKG 0332
Cell line databases/resources CLO; CLO_0009553
CLDB; cl4673
CCRID; 1101RAB-PUMC000320
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54993438
Entry history
Entry creation04-Apr-2012
Last entry update21-Mar-2023
Version number19