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U-937 (human, Caucasian, pleural effusion, lymphoma, histiocytic)


Continuous culture, grown as suspension
histomonocytoid morphology
SPECIES: human, Caucasian (male, 37 years old)
TISSUE/ORGAN: pleural effusion
TUMOR: lymphoma, histiocytic
Susceptibility to viruses: HIV-1 * HIV-2
PROPERTIES: IL-1 prod.; specialized product secr.; tumor markers; Fc receptor; monocytic differentiation; differentiation; antitumour testing; cell biology; virology; tumorigenicity; c-myc mRNA expression; C3b receptor

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Availability in cell line catalogues: ATCC: CRL 1593, DSMZ: ACC 5, ICLC: HTL94002

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