Cellosaurus cell line HKESC-2 (CVCL

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Cell line name	HKESC-2
Synonyms	HKESC2; Hong Kong Esophageal Squamous Carcinoma-2
Accession	CVCL_D571
Resource Identification Initiative	To cite this cell line use: HKESC-2 (RRID:CVCL_D571)
Comments	Population: Chinese. Doubling time: 24 hours (PubMed=12127396). Derived from site: In situ; Esophagus; UBERON=UBERON_0001043.
Disease	Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (NCIt: C4024) Squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus (ORDO: Orphanet_99977)
Species of origin	Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Sex of cell	Female
Age at sampling	46Y
Category	Cancer cell line
Publications	PubMed=12127396; DOI=10.1016/S0165-4608(01)00580-5 Hu Y.-C., Lam K.Y., Law S.Y.-K., Wan T.S.-K., Ma E.S.-K., Kwong Y.L., Chan L.C., Wong J., Srivastava G. Establishment, characterization, karyotyping, and comparative genomic hybridization analysis of HKESC-2 and HKESC-3: two newly established human esophageal squamous cell carcinoma cell lines. Cancer Genet. Cytogenet. 135:120-127(2002) PubMed=15885884; DOI=10.1016/j.canlet.2005.03.036 Lo P.H.-Y., Leung A.C.-C., Xiong W.-J., Law S.Y.-K., Duh F.-M., Lerman M.I., Stanbridge E.J., Lung M.L. Expression of candidate chromosome 3p21.3 tumor suppressor genes and down-regulation of BLU in some esophageal squamous cell carcinomas. Cancer Lett. 234:184-192(2006)
Anatomy/cell type resources	BTO; BTO_0005165
Encyclopedic resources	Wikidata; Q54889768
Entry history
Entry creation	22-Oct-2012
Last entry update	19-Dec-2024
Version number	15