Cellosaurus cell line HSC-PQ (CVCL

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Cell line name	HSC-PQ
Synonyms	Hepatic Stellate Cell-PQ; PQ
Accession	CVCL_A281
Resource Identification Initiative	To cite this cell line use: HSC-PQ (RRID:CVCL_A281)
Comments	Doubling time: ~75 hours (PubMed=15908330). Derived from site: In situ; Liver; UBERON=UBERON_0002107. Cell type: Hepatic stellate cell; CL=CL_0000632.
Species of origin	Rattus norvegicus (Rat) (NCBI Taxonomy: 10116) Breed/subspecies: Sprague Dawley; RS=RS_0000681.
Sex of cell	Male
Age at sampling	Adult
Category	Spontaneously immortalized cell line
Publications	PubMed=15908330 Qin Pan, Ding-Guo Li, Han-Ming Lu, Yu-Qing Wang, Wen-Zhu Zhang, Qin-Fang Xu; A new immortalized rat cell line, hepatic stellate cell-PQ, exhibiting characteristics of hepatic stellate cell. Hepatobiliary Pancreat. Dis. Int. 4:281-284(2005) 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)
Anatomy/cell type resources	BTO; BTO_0003524
Encyclopedic resources	Wikidata; Q54896417
Entry history
Entry creation	06-Jun-2012
Last entry update	27-Nov-2025
Version number	15