Cellosaurus cell line Fcwf-4 (CVCL

Cellosaurus Fcwf-4 (CVCL_6389)

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Cell line name	Fcwf-4
Synonyms	fcwf-4; FCWF-4; FCWF4; Fcwf4; fcwf4; Fcwf; FCWF; Felis catus whole fetus-4
Accession	CVCL_6389
Resource Identification Initiative	To cite this cell line use: Fcwf-4 (RRID:CVCL_6389)
Comments	Virology: Susceptible to infection by feline coronavirus (FCoV). Doubling time: 31 hours (ATCC=CRL-2787). Derived from site: In situ; Whole fetus; UBERON=UBERON_0000323. Cell type: Macrophage; CL=CL_0000235.
Species of origin	Felis catus (Cat) (Felis silvestris catus) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9685)
Sex of cell	Sex unspecified
Age at sampling	Fetus
Category	Spontaneously immortalized cell line
Publications	PubMed=6267959; DOI=10.2460/ajvr.1981.42.03.363 Niels C. Pedersen, John F. Boyle, Kim Floyd; Infection studies in kittens, using feline infectious peritonitis virus propagated in cell culture. Am. J. Vet. Res. 42:363-367(1981) PubMed=21029758; DOI=10.1016/j.virusres.2010.10.020 Masaya Okada, Rokusuke Yoshikawa, Takayuki Shojima, Kenji Baba, Takayuki Miyazawa; Susceptibility and production of a feline endogenous retrovirus (RD-114 virus) in various feline cell lines. Virus Res. 155:268-273(2011) PubMed=21593079; DOI=10.1093/jmicro/dfr031; PMCID=PMC7793022 Amer Alazawy, Siti Suri Arshad, Mohd-Hair Bejo, Abdul-Rahman Omar, Tengku-Azmi Tengku Ibrahim, Saeed Sharif, Faruku Bande, Kamarudin Awang-Isa; Ultrastructure of Felis catus whole fetus (Fcwf-4) cell culture following infection with feline coronavirus. J. Electron Microsc. (Tokyo) 60:275-282(2011)
Cell line collections (Providers)	ATCC; CRL-2787 BCRJ; 0334
Cell line databases/resources	CLO; CLO_0003069
Anatomy/cell type resources	BTO; BTO_0006392
Encyclopedic resources	Wikidata; Q54833430
Entry history
Entry creation	04-Apr-2012
Last entry update	10-Apr-2025
Version number	13