Widespread intraspecies cross-contamination of human tumor cell lines arising at source

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 555-563

  MacLeod, Roderick A F ^a,c   Dirks, Wilhelm G ^a   Matsuo, Yoshinobu ^b   Kaufmann, Maren ^a   Milch, Herbert ^a   Drexler, Hans G ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

^b HAYASHIBARA BIOCHEMICAL LABORATORIES INC   (Japan)

^c DSMZ Ger Collec Microorganisms C ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR CELL LINE;

CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; NEOPLASMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; QUALITY CONTROL; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0032880047     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19991112)83:4<555::AID-IJC19>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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