P39/tsugane cells are a false cell line contaminated with hl-60 cells and are not suitable for mechanistic studies in myelodysplastic syndromes

Haematologica

Volumn 95, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1229-1230

  Steensma, David P ^a  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell lines; Contamination; DNA fingerprinting; MDS

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; CELL GROWTH; CELL LINE; CELL STRAIN HL 60; CELL STRAIN P39; CHRONIC MYELOMONOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; CONTAMINATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOGENETICS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; HUMAN; KARYOTYPING; LETTER; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TSUGANE CELL; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; HL 60 CELL LINE; PATHOLOGY; TUMOR CELL LINE;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; HL-60 CELLS; HUMANS; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES;

EID: 77954521145     PISSN: 03906078     EISSN: 15928721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3324/haematol.2010.022988     Document Type: Letter

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