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Cellosaurus LSTM-RA-243 (CVCL_Z136)

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Cell line name LSTM-RA-243
Synonyms RA-243; RA 243; RA243; TTC-243; TTC 243
Accession CVCL_Z136
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: LSTM-RA-243 (RRID:CVCL_Z136)
Comments Group: Tick cell line.
Species of origin Rhipicephalus appendiculatus (Brown ear tick) (NCBI Taxonomy: 34631)
Sex of cell Sex unspecified
Age at sampling Moulting nymph
Category Spontaneously immortalized cell line
Web pages https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/research/facilities/tick-cell-biobank/
https://www.dsmz.de/fileadmin/Bereiche/Microbiology/Dateien/Kultivierungshinweise/TickCellCultureMethods-4.pdf
Publications

PubMed=1123829; DOI=10.1093/jmedent/11.6.698
Varma M.G.R., Pudney M., Leake C.J.
The establishment of three cell lines from the tick Rhipicephalus appendiculatus (Acari: Ixodidae) and their infection with some arboviruses.
J. Med. Entomol. 11:698-706(1975)

DOI=10.1007/BF00919720
Pudney M., Varma M.G.R., Leake C.J.
Establishment of cell lines from ixodid ticks.
TCA Manual 5:1003-1007(1979)

PubMed=6126429; DOI=10.1007/BF02796333
Brown S.E., Knudson D.L.
Characterization of invertebrate cell lines. IV. Isozyme analyses of dipteran and acarine cell lines.
In Vitro 18:347-350(1982)

PubMed=7131199; DOI=10.2307/3281008
Kurtti T.J., Munderloh U.G., Samish M.
Effect of medium supplements on tick cells in culture.
J. Parasitol. 68:930-935(1982)

PubMed=17662657; DOI=10.1016/j.pt.2007.07.009
Bell-Sakyi L., Zweygarth E., Blouin E.F., Gould E.A., Jongejan F.
Tick cell lines: tools for tick and tick-borne disease research.
Trends Parasitol. 23:450-457(2007)

PubMed=22743047; DOI=10.1016/j.ttbdis.2012.05.002; PMCID=PMC3431536
Alberdi M.P., Dalby M.J., Rodriguez-Andres J., Fazakerley J.K., Kohl A., Bell-Sakyi L.
Detection and identification of putative bacterial endosymbionts and endogenous viruses in tick cell lines.
Ticks Tick Borne Dis. 3:137-146(2012)

PubMed=27484910; DOI=10.1186/s13071-016-1708-x; PMCID=PMC4970269
Koh-Tan H.H.C., Strachan E., Cooper K., Bell-Sakyi L., Jonsson N.N.
Identification of a novel beta-adrenergic octopamine receptor-like gene (betaAOR-like) and increased ATP-binding cassette B10 (ABCB10) expression in a Rhipicephalus microplus cell line derived from acaricide-resistant ticks.
Parasit. Vectors 9:425.1-425.11(2016)

PubMed=29886187; DOI=10.1016/j.ttbdis.2018.05.015; PMCID=PMC6052676
Bell-Sakyi L., Darby A.C., Baylis M., Makepeace B.L.
The Tick Cell Biobank: a global resource for in vitro research on ticks, other arthropods and the pathogens they transmit.
Ticks Tick Borne Dis. 9:1364-1371(2018)

PubMed=32158404; DOI=10.3389/fphys.2020.00152; PMCID=PMC7052283
Al-Rofaai A., Bell-Sakyi L.
Tick cell lines in research on tick control.
Front. Physiol. 11:152.1-152.7(2020)

Cross-references
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54903145
Entry history
Entry creation10-Apr-2015
Last entry update10-Sep-2024
Version number11