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Cellosaurus HCu 39 (CVCL_M857)

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Cell line name HCu 39
Synonyms Hcu 39; HCU 39; HCu-39; HCU-39
Accession CVCL_M857
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: HCu 39 (RRID:CVCL_M857)
Comments Problematic cell line: Contaminated. Hcu 10, Hcu 18, Hcu 22, Hcu 27, Hcu 33, Hcu 37 and Hcu 39 have been shown to be identical (PubMed=3167823; PubMed=20143388).
Registration: International Cell Line Authentication Committee, Register of Misidentified Cell Lines; ICLAC-00062.
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)
Originate from same individual CVCL_M850 ! HCu 10
CVCL_M852 ! HCu 18
CVCL_M853 ! HCu 22
CVCL_M854 ! HCu 27
CVCL_M855 ! HCu 33
CVCL_M856 ! HCu 37
Category Cancer cell line
Web pages https://iclac.org/wp-content/uploads/Cross-Contaminations_v12_distribution.xlsx
Publications

PubMed=7408279
Robinson K.M., Haffejee A.A., Angorn I.B.
Tissue culture and prognosis in carcinoma of the oesophagus.
Clin. Oncol. 6:125-136(1980)

PubMed=6571927; DOI=10.1093/jnci/70.1.89
Robinson K.M., Maistry L.
Tumorigenicity and other properties of cells from ten continuous human esophageal carcinoma cell lines in nude mice.
J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 70:89-93(1983)

PubMed=2420787; DOI=10.1016/S0021-9258(17)38506-X
Banks-Schlegel S.P., Quintero J.
Human esophageal carcinoma cells have fewer, but higher affinity epidermal growth factor receptors.
J. Biol. Chem. 261:4359-4362(1986)

PubMed=3167823
van Helden P.D., Wiid I.J.F., Albrecht C.F., Theron E., Thornley A.L., Hoal-van Helden E.G.
Cross-contamination of human esophageal squamous carcinoma cell lines detected by DNA fingerprint analysis.
Cancer Res. 48:5660-5662(1988)

PubMed=2302677; DOI=10.1016/0165-4608(90)90073-j
Whang-Peng J., Banks-Schlegel S.P., Lee E.C.
Cytogenetic studies of esophageal carcinoma cell lines.
Cancer Genet. Cytogenet. 45:101-120(1990)

PubMed=20143388; DOI=10.1002/ijc.25242
Capes-Davis A., Theodosopoulos G., Atkin I., Drexler H.G., Kohara A., MacLeod R.A.F., Masters J.R.W., Nakamura Y., Reid Y.A., Reddel R.R., Freshney R.I.
Check your cultures! A list of cross-contaminated or misidentified cell lines.
Int. J. Cancer 127:1-8(2010)

Cross-references
Biological sample resources BioSample; SAMN03151653
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54882076
Entry history
Entry creation05-Nov-2013
Last entry update21-Mar-2023
Version number14