Identification of HepG2 variant cell lines by short tandem repeat (STR) analysis

Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Volumn 243, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 49-54

  van Pelt, Jos F ^a   Decorte, Ronny ^a   Yap, Paul S H ^a   Fevery, Johan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

DNA fingerprinting; Hepatoblastoma cell line; HepG2; Immortalization; Karyotyping

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL CLONE; CELL CLONING; CELL ISOLATION; CELL LINE; CELL STRAIN; CELL STRAIN HEPG2; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KARYOTYPING; LIVER CELL; LIVER CELL CULTURE; LIVER FUNCTION; SOMATIC CELL GENETICS; TANDEM REPEAT;

ALBUMINS; BILIRUBIN; CELL LINE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, VIRAL; FIBRINOGEN; HEPATOBLASTOMA; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; LIDOCAINE; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SIMIAN VIRUS 40;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 0037281033     PISSN: 03008177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021653506123     Document Type: Article

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