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Cellosaurus PNKT-4B (CVCL_T688)

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Cell line name PNKT-4B
Synonyms PNKT4B; ProNephric Kidney Tumour-4B
Accession CVCL_T688
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: PNKT-4B (RRID:CVCL_T688)
Comments Group: Amphibian cell line.
Characteristics: Derived from primary explants of a pronephric tumour induced after embryo inoculation of the RaHV-1 infected WMPa/V208 cell line (Cellosaurus=CVCL_D6A0) (from parent cell line).
Transformant: NCBI_TaxID; 85655; Ranid herpesvirus 1 (RaHV-1).
Derived from site: In situ; Embryonic kidney, pronephros; UBERON=UBERON_0002120.
Disease Frog pronephric kidney tumor (NCIt: C134771)
Species of origin Lithobates pipiens (Northern leopard frog) (Rana pipiens) (NCBI Taxonomy: 8404)
Hierarchy Parent: CVCL_T687 (PNKT-4)
Age at sampling Larval stage
Category Cancer cell line
Publications

PubMed=221384
Tweedell K.S.
Pronephric tumour cell lines from herpesvirus-transformed cells.
IARC Sci. Publ. 24:609-616(1978)

PubMed=2328547; DOI=10.1007/BF00141257
Williams J.W. III, Smith M.D., Carlson D.L., Williams C.S., Tweedell K.S., McKinnell R.G.
Culture of PNKT-4B cells at invasion permissive and restrictive temperatures. I. Chromosomal analysis.
Clin. Exp. Metastasis 8:267-276(1990)

DOI=10.3354/dao027001
Williams J.W. III, Tweedell K.S., Sterling D., Marshall N.A., Christ C.G., Carlson D.L., McKinnel R.G.
Oncogenic herpesvirus DNA absence in kidney cell lines established from the northern leopard frog Rana pipiens.
Dis. Aquat. Organ. 27:1-4(1996)

Cross-references
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54947659
Entry history
Entry creation03-Feb-2014
Last entry update02-May-2024
Version number10