Cellosaurus cell line hPTC (CVCL

Cellosaurus hPTC (CVCL_8224)

Cross-references
Cell line name	hPTC
Synonyms	HPTC; human Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma
Accession	CVCL_8224
Resource Identification Initiative	To cite this cell line use: hPTC (RRID:CVCL_8224)
Comments	Problematic cell line: Misidentified. Originally thought to be of human origin but found to be from pig (PubMed=10508494; PubMed=20143388). Registration: International Cell Line Authentication Committee, Register of Misidentified Cell Lines; ICLAC-00127.
Species of origin	Sus scrofa (Pig) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9823)
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=7787432; DOI=10.1089/thy.1995.5.41 Akira Hishinuma, Tohru Yamanaka, Kikuo Kasai, Shinbu So, Chen-Chiang Tseng, Nobuyuki Bamba, Hideki Ohtake, Shin-ichi Shimoda; Different growth control of the two human thyroid cell lines of adenomatous goiter and papillary carcinoma. Thyroid 5:41-46(1995) 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=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)
Biological sample resources	BioSample; SAMN03152014
Encyclopedic resources	Wikidata; Q54891737
Entry history
Entry creation	04-Apr-2012
Last entry update	10-Apr-2025
Version number	17