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Cellosaurus WI-1 [Human fetal lung] (CVCL_JE97)

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Cell line name WI-1 [Human fetal lung]
Synonyms WI1; Wistar Institute-1; WIHL; Wistar Institute Human Lung
Accession CVCL_JE97
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: WI-1 [Human fetal lung] (RRID:CVCL_JE97)
Comments Anecdotal: First cell line derived by Hayflick from fetal cells.
Anecdotal: The cell lines WI-1 to WI-25 derived by Hayflick were lost in 1961 when an electrical freezer failed at the Wistar Insitute (CelloPub=CLPUB00391).
Derived from site: In situ; Fetal lung; UBERON=UBERON_0005597.
Cell type: Fibroblast of lung; CL=CL_0002553.
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Sex of cell Male
Age at sampling Fetus
Category Finite cell line
Publications

PubMed=13905658; DOI=10.1016/0014-4827(61)90192-6
Leonard Hayflick, Paul Sidney Moorhead;
The serial cultivation of human diploid cell strains.
Exp. Cell Res. 25:585-621(1961)

PubMed=13905660; DOI=10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a120247
Leonard Hayflick, Stanley Alan Plotkin, Thomas W. Norton, Hilary Koprowski;
Preparation of poliovirus vaccines in a human fetal diploid cell strain.
Am. J. Hyg. 75:240-258(1962)

PubMed=14315085; DOI=10.1016/0014-4827(65)90211-9
Leonard Hayflick;
The limited in vitro lifetime of human diploid cell strains.
Exp. Cell Res. 37:614-636(1965)

CLPUB00391
Meredith Wadman;
The vaccine race: science; politics; and the human costs of defeating disease.
(In book) ISBN 9780525427537; pp.1-436; Viking; New York; USA (2016)

Cross-references
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54994019
Entry history
Entry creation15-May-2017
Last entry update02-May-2024
Version number7