Vero

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Vero (monkey, African green, kidney)

Continuous culture, grown as monolayer
fibroblast morphology
SPECIES: monkey, African green Karyology: modal number 58
TISSUE/ORGAN: kidney
Susceptibility to viruses: adenovirus 12 * African swine fever virus * arbovirus * bluetongue virus * bovine leucosis * echovirus * Getah arbovirus * herpes simplex * influenza * orbivirus * orthomixovirus * paramyxovirus * poliovirus 3 * porcine epidemic diarrhea virus * reovirus * rubella
PROPERTIES: virology; virus titration; virus replication; plaque assays; bacterial cytotoxicity

Available in the following LABORATORY:

Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (MWIIW, Moscow)
mycoplasma negative
Epithelial-like morphology. At the moment the availability of this cell line is not sure

Availability in cell line catalogues: ATCC: CCL 81, IZSBS: BS CL 86, ECACC: 84113001, ICLC: ATL95005, ECACC: 88020401

Bibliographic references:

Acta Pathol Microbiol Scand Sec B 1981;89:179
Am J Vet Res 1980;41:1357 - PMID: 7004279
Arch GVS Virusforsch 1969;27:379 - PMID: 4313210
Avian Dis 1988;32:298 - PMID: 2840882
Intervirology 1983;20:181 - PMID: 6654644
J Clin Microbiol 1988;26:234
Microbiol Immunol 1979;23:229
Nippon Rinsho 1963;21:1209
Proc Soc Exp Biol Med 1967;125:602 - PMID: 4961492