Cellosaurus cell line Rcho-1 (CVCL

Cellosaurus Rcho-1 (CVCL_7996)

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Cell line name	Rcho-1
Synonyms	Rcho1; Rat choriocarcinoma-1
Accession	CVCL_7996
Resource Identification Initiative	To cite this cell line use: Rcho-1 (RRID:CVCL_7996)
Comments	Characteristics: Capable of differentiating along the trophoblast giant cell lineage (PubMed=1954876).
Disease	Rat choriocarcinoma (NCIt: C60377)
Species of origin	Rattus norvegicus (Rat) (NCBI Taxonomy: 10116) Breed/subspecies: Wistar King Aptekman/Hok (WKA/Hok); RS=RS_0001595.
Originate from same individual	CVCL_6F08 ! RCHO
Sex of cell	Male
Age at sampling	Age unspecified
Category	Cancer cell line
Web pages	Info; -; -; https://web.archive.org/web/20141104152231/http://www2.kumc.edu/soalab/LabLinks/cell%20lines/rcho1.htm
Publications	PubMed=1954876; DOI=10.1210/endo-129-6-2895 Teresa N. Faria, Michael J. Soares; Trophoblast cell differentiation: establishment, characterization, and modulation of a rat trophoblast cell line expressing members of the placental prolactin family. Endocrinology 129:2895-2906(1991) PubMed=8781972; DOI=10.1007/BF00731474 Takamitsu Shirai, Saki Itonori, Tadashi Tai, Michael J. Soares, Kunio Shiota, Tomoya Ogawa; Ganglioside composition of the rat choriocarcinoma cell line, Rcho-1. Glycoconj. J. 13:415-421(1996) PubMed=8895376; DOI=10.1210/endo.137.11.8895376 Guo-Li Dai, Walter T. Imagawa, Bing Liu, Claude Szpirer, Goran Levan, Simon Chun-Man Kwok, Michael J. Soares; Rcho-1 trophoblast cell placental lactogens: complementary deoxyribonucleic acids, heterologous expression, and biological activities. Endocrinology 137:5020-5027(1996) PubMed=16251742; DOI=10.1385/1-59259-983-4:157 Namita Sahgal, Lindsey N. Canham, Brent Canham, Michael J. Soares; Rcho-1 trophoblast stem cells: a model system for studying trophoblast cell differentiation. Methods Mol. Med. 121:159-178(2006)
Cell line databases/resources	TOKU-E; 4100
Anatomy/cell type resources	BTO; BTO_0001556
Encyclopedic resources	Wikidata; Q54949494
Entry history
Entry creation	04-Apr-2012
Last entry update	14-Aug-2025
Version number	13