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Cellosaurus GREF-X (CVCL_7667)

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Cell line name GREF-X
Accession CVCL_7667
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: GREF-X (RRID:CVCL_7667)
Comments Problematic cell line: Misidentified. Originally thought to be of human origin but found to be from rat (PubMed=10508494; PubMed=20143388).
Registration: International Cell Line Authentication Committee, Register of Misidentified Cell Lines; ICLAC-00123.
Species of origin Rattus norvegicus (Rat) (NCBI Taxonomy: 10116)
Sex of cell Sex unspecified
Age at sampling Age unspecified
Category Undefined cell line type
Web pages Info; ICLAC; -; https://iclac.org/wp-content/uploads/Cross-Contaminations_v13_distribution.xlsx
Publications

PubMed=9251679
Francois-Xavier Weill, Sylvie Blazejewski, Jean-Frederic Blanc, Stephane Huet, Jean-Michel Gauthier, Veronique Neaud, Elvira Olaso, Liliane Dubuisson, Veronique Azais-Braesco, Fernando Vidal-Vanaclocha, Charles Balabaud ...Show all 13 authors... , Paulette Bioulac-Sage, Jean Rosenbaum; Show fewer authors
Characterization of a new human liver myofibroblast cell line: transcriptional regulation of plasminogen activator inhibitor type I by transforming growth factor beta 1.
Lab. Invest. 77:63-70(1997)

PubMed=10508494; DOI=10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19991112)83:4<555::AID-IJC19>3.0.CO;2-2
Roderick A.F. MacLeod, Wilhelm Gerhard Dirks, Yoshinobu Matsuo, Maren Kaufmann, Herbert Milch, Hans Gunther Drexler;
Widespread intraspecies cross-contamination of human tumor cell lines arising at source.
Int. J. Cancer 83:555-563(1999)

PubMed=17760834; DOI=10.1111/j.1582-4934.2007.00060.x; PMCID=PMC3823251
Jens Herrmann, Axel M. Gressner, Ralf Weiskirchen;
Immortal hepatic stellate cell lines: useful tools to study hepatic stellate cell biology and function?
J. Cell. Mol. Med. 11:704-722(2007)

PubMed=20143388; DOI=10.1002/ijc.25242
Amanda Capes-Davis, George Theodosopoulos, Isobel Atkin, Hans Gunther Drexler, Arihiro Kohara, Roderick A.F. MacLeod, John R.W. Masters, Yukio Nakamura, Yvonne A. Reid, Roger Robert Reddel, Robert Ian Freshney;
Check your cultures! A list of cross-contaminated or misidentified cell lines.
Int. J. Cancer 127:1-8(2010)

Cross-references
Anatomy/cell type resources BTO; BTO_0003518
Biological sample resources BioSample; SAMN03152009
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54871686
Entry history
Entry creation04-Apr-2012
Last entry update10-Apr-2025
Version number18