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Hep G2 (human, Caucasian, liver, carcinoma, hepatocellular)


Continuous culture, grown as monolayer
epithelial-like morphology
SPECIES: human, Caucasian (male, 15 years old) Karyology: modal number 55
TISSUE/ORGAN: liver
TUMOR: carcinoma, hepatocellular
non tumorigenic
PROPERTIES: biochemical markers; hormone prod.; lipid prod.; tumor markers; protein secr.; serum complement components prod.; biochemistry; enzymology; factor sensibility; metabolism; receptor; replication; toxicity screening; tumorigenicity; differentiation; cytotoxicity; xenobiotic metabolism; lipoprotein; virology

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Availability in cell line catalogues: ATCC: HB 8065, IZSBS: BS TCL79, ECACC: 85011430, ICLC: HTL95005

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