Authentication of cell lines: Ignore at your peril!

Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 311-314

  Freshney, R Ian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

BLADDER CARCINOMA; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER RESISTANCE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL STRAIN MCF 7; CELL TYPE; EDITORIAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HELA CELL; HEP 2 CELL; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MOUTH CARCINOMA; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; OVARY CARCINOMA; QUALITY CONTROL; RESEARCH ETHICS; TUMOR CELL LINE; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL LINE; CELL LINEAGE; HUMANS; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 45249124250     PISSN: 14737140     EISSN: 17448328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14737140.8.3.311     Document Type: Editorial

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