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  P. Romano, A. Manniello et al. Nucl Acids Res 2009 37:D925-D932.
DOI: doi:10.1093/nar/gkn730; PMID: 18927105


BT-474 (human, breast, carcinoma, ductal)


SPECIES: human
TISSUE/ORGAN: breast
TUMOR: carcinoma, ductal

DSMZ catalog code: ACC 64
Morphology: adherent patches of epithelial cells; individual colonies with a thick center and a thin smooth margin
Susceptibility to viruses: RIII-MuMTV
Description: human breast ductal carcinoma established from a solid, invasive ductal carcinoma of the breast obtained from a 60-year-old woman; cells were reportedly tumorigenic in athymic mice and were found to be susceptible to mouse mammary tumor virus confirmed as human with IEF of AST, GPDH, LDH, NP
Viruses: ELISA: reverse transcriptase negative; PCR: EBV-, HBV-, HCV-, HHV-8-, HIV-, HTLV-I/II-
Depositor: Dr. H. Kirchner, Medical School of Hannover, Hannover, Germany
General Restrictions

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Availability in cell line catalogues: ATCC: HTB-20, ICLC: HTL00008

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BT-474 (human, Caucasian, breast, carcinoma, ductal)

ICLC catalog code: HTL00008
Continuous culture, grown as monolayer
epithelial, compact, multi-layered colonies, rarely become confluent morphology
SPECIES: human, Caucasian (female, 60 years old)
TISSUE/ORGAN: breast
TUMOR: carcinoma, ductal
tumorigenic in nude mice
DEPOSITOR: Dr L. Varesco, Exp. Oncology Dept, IST, Genoa, Italy
Cell line available for distribution. For non-commercial investigative use only

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Availability in cell line catalogues: DSMZ: ACC 64

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IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino
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Dott.ssa Paola Visconti
Email: paola.visconti@hsanmartino.it

If you want to cite CLDB and HyperCLDB, please use the following reference:

P. Romano, A. Manniello, O. Aresu, M. Armento, M. Cesaro, B. Parodi.
Cell Line Data Base: structure and recent improvements towards molecular authentication of human cell lines.
Nucleic Acids Research 2009 37(Database issue):D925-D932.
DOI: doi:10.1093/nar/gkn730; PMID: 18927105