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KARPAS-45 (human, bone marrow, leukemia, T cell)


SPECIES: human
TISSUE/ORGAN: bone marrow
TUMOR: leukemia, T cell

DSMZ catalog code: ACC 105
Morphology: spherical cells growing as clumps in suspension
Description: human T cell leukemia established from the bone marrow of a 2-year-old boy at diagnosis of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) prior to therapy in 1972; cells were reported as carrying the MLL-AFX and AFX-MLL fusion genes; retrospectively, the original diagnosis was T-ALL confirmed as human with IEF of AST, LDH, NP
Viruses: ELISA: reverse transcriptase negative; PCR: EBV-, HBV-, HCV-, HHV-8-, HIV-, HTLV-I/II-
Depositor: Dr. A. Karpas, MRC Centre, Cambridge, UK
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