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CX-1 (human, colon, adenocarcinoma)


SPECIES: human
TISSUE/ORGAN: colon
TUMOR: adenocarcinoma

DSMZ catalog code: ACC 129
Morphology: small circular cells, adherent, grow to large colonies in which the single cells are no longer discernible
Description: human colon adenocarcinoma established from the tumor tissue of a 44-year-old woman with well-differentiated colon adenocarcinoma in 1984 confirmed as human with IEF of AST, MDH
Viruses: ELISA: reverse transcriptase negative; PCR: EBV-, HBV-, HCV-, HHV-8-, HIV-, HTLV-I/II-
Depositor: obtained from DKFZ Tumorbank (TZB No. 610004), Heidelberg, Germany
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