The current state of cell contamination and authentication - and what it means for biobanks

Biopreservation and Biobanking

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 236-238

  Reid, Yvonne ^a   Mintzer, Joe ^b  

^a Cell Culture Contracts   (United States)

^b Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Hematopoiesis   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL LINE; CELL LINE AUTHENTICATION; CELL SCREENING; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TRANSFER; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NOTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; CYTOLOGY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENETIC MARKER; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; INTERVIEW; PROCEDURES; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARDS;

GENETIC MARKER; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

BIOLOGICAL SPECIMEN BANKS; CELL LINE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84862834523     PISSN: 19475535     EISSN: 19475543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/bio.2012.1039     Document Type: Note

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