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Cellosaurus EKS3 (CVCL_5283)

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Cell line name EKS3
Accession CVCL_5283
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: EKS3 (RRID:CVCL_5283)
Comments Characteristics: Produces significant quantity of IL6 (PubMed=1693429).
Disease AIDS-related Kaposi sarcoma (NCIt: C3992)
Kaposi sarcoma (ORDO: Orphanet_33276)
HIV-associated cancer (ORDO: Orphanet_443291)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Category Cancer cell line
Web pages Info; COPE; -; http://www.cells-talk.com/index.php/page/copelibrary?key=EKS3
Publications

PubMed=1693429; DOI=10.1073/pnas.87.11.4068; PMCID=PMC54048
Steven A. Miles, Ahmad R. Rezai, Jesus F. Salazar-Gonzalez, Meta Vander Meyden, Ronald Henry Stevens, Diane M. Logan, Ronald T. Mitsuyasu, Tetsuya Taga, Toshio Hirano, Tadamitsu Kishimoto, Otoniel Martinez-Maza;
AIDS Kaposi sarcoma-derived cells produce and respond to interleukin 6.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 87:4068-4072(1990)

Cross-references
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54832195
Entry history
Entry creation04-Apr-2012
Last entry update10-Apr-2025
Version number10