- Jul 2018
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On 2014 Feb 15, Amanda Capes-Davis commented:
Cell line names can be very confusing and there are a few issues here to be aware of. KB is not epidermoid carcinoma, as originally thought, but is actually cross-contaminated with HeLa, a human cervical adenocarcinoma cell line. LU-1 is described here as lung adenocarcinoma, but there are two similarly named cell lines in the literature - SK-LU-1 and LU. SK-LU-1 is known be authentic, while LU is cross-contaminated with HeLa. Which did the authors use?
For a list of known cross-contaminated cell lines, see http://iclac.org/databases/cross-contaminations/.
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- Feb 2018
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europepmc.org europepmc.org
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On 2014 Feb 15, Amanda Capes-Davis commented:
Cell line names can be very confusing and there are a few issues here to be aware of. KB is not epidermoid carcinoma, as originally thought, but is actually cross-contaminated with HeLa, a human cervical adenocarcinoma cell line. LU-1 is described here as lung adenocarcinoma, but there are two similarly named cell lines in the literature - SK-LU-1 and LU. SK-LU-1 is known be authentic, while LU is cross-contaminated with HeLa. Which did the authors use?
For a list of known cross-contaminated cell lines, see http://iclac.org/databases/cross-contaminations/.
This comment, imported by Hypothesis from PubMed Commons, is licensed under CC BY.
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