Origin of the U87MG glioma cell line: Good news and bad news

Science Translational Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 354, 2016, Pages

  Allen, Marie ^a   Bjerke, Mia ^a,b   Edlund, Hanna ^a   Nelander, Sven ^a   Westermark, Bengt ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER TISSUE; CELL ISOLATION; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENOTYPE; GLIOMA CELL LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; U87MG CELL LINE; BRAIN TUMOR; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; METABOLISM; STANDARDS; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH; TUMOR CELL LINE;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, NEOPLASM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84988908474     PISSN: 19466234     EISSN: 19466242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaf6853     Document Type: Article

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