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Capan-2 (human, Caucasian, pancreas, adenocarcinoma)


Continuous culture, grown as monolayer
polygonal morphology
SPECIES: human, Caucasian (male, 56 years old) Karyology: hypotriploid
TISSUE/ORGAN: pancreas
TUMOR: adenocarcinoma
tumorigenic in nude mice
PROPERTIES: tumorigenicity; immunology

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Availability in cell line catalogues: ATCC: HTB 80, DSMZ: ACC 245

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Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro,
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Largo Rosanna Benzi, 10 - I-16132 Genova - Italy Tel: +39-0105737-289, Fax: +39-0105737-293
Email: assunta.manniello@istge.it