Cellosaurus cell line III-2 (CVCL

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Cell line name	III-2
Synonyms	III2; 2
Accession	CVCL_C7S0
Resource Identification Initiative	To cite this cell line use: III-2 (RRID:CVCL_C7S0)
Comments	Doubling time: 26.4 hours (PubMed=2827488). Transformant: ChEBI; CHEBI_46664; Chrysotile asbestos. Derived from site: In situ; Peritoneum; UBERON=UBERON_0002358.
Disease	Rat malignant mesothelioma (NCIt: C60453)
Species of origin	Rattus norvegicus (Rat) (NCBI Taxonomy: 10116) Breed/subspecies: Fischer 344; RS=RS_0000215.
Sex of cell	Female
Category	Cancer cell line
Publications	PubMed=2827488; PMCID=PMC1899808 Craighead J.E., Akley N.J., Gould L.B., Libbus B.L. Characteristics of tumors and tumor cells cultured from experimental asbestos-induced mesotheliomas in rats. Am. J. Pathol. 129:448-462(1987) PubMed=8205524 Walker C.L., Rutten A.A.J.J.L., Yuan X.-Q., Pass H.I., Mew D.M., Everitt J.I. Wilms' tumor suppressor gene expression in rat and human mesothelioma. Cancer Res. 54:3101-3106(1994) PubMed=7627973 Rutten A.A.J.J.L., Bermudez E., Stewart W., Everitt J.I., Walker C.L. Expression of insulin-like growth factor II in spontaneously immortalized rat mesothelial and spontaneous mesothelioma cells: a potential autocrine role of insulin-like growth factor II. Cancer Res. 55:3634-3639(1995)
Encyclopedic resources	Wikidata; Q117704527
Entry history
Entry creation	21-Mar-2023
Last entry update	10-Apr-2025
Version number	5