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Cellosaurus BCBL-2 (CVCL_A5ZN)

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Cell line name BCBL-2
Synonyms Body Cavity Based Lymphoma-2
Accession CVCL_A5ZN
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: BCBL-2 (RRID:CVCL_A5ZN)
Comments Transformant: NCBI_TaxID; 10376; Epstein-Barr virus (EBV).
Transformant: NCBI_TaxID; 37296; Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8/KSHV).
Disease Primary effusion lymphoma (NCIt: C6915)
Primary effusion lymphoma (ORDO: Orphanet_48686)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Sex of cell Male
Age at sampling Age unspecified
Category Cancer cell line
Publications

PubMed=8612236; DOI=10.1038/nm0396-342
Rolf Renne, Wei-Dong Zhong, Brian Garnet Herndier, Michael S. McGrath, Nancy W. Abbey, Dean Hamilton Kedes, Donald Emil Ganem;
Lytic growth of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (human herpesvirus 8) in culture.
Nat. Med. 2:342-346(1996)

PubMed=9766492; DOI=10.1038/sj.leu.2401160
Hans Gunther Drexler, Cord C. Uphoff, Gianluca Gaidano, Antonino Carbone;
Lymphoma cell lines: in vitro models for the study of HHV-8+ primary effusion lymphomas (body cavity-based lymphomas).
Leukemia 12:1507-1517(1998)

Cross-references
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q107113435
Entry history
Entry creation20-May-2021
Last entry update21-Mar-2023
Version number3