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HOS (TE85, Clone F5) (human, Caucasian, bone, osteosarcoma)


Continuous culture, grown as monolayer
epithelial-like morphology
SPECIES: human, Caucasian (female, 13 years old)
TISSUE/ORGAN: bone
TUMOR: osteosarcoma
PROPERTIES: virology; transformation; biochemistry

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Availability in cell line catalogues: ATCC: CRL 1543

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