Cellosaurus cell line TEL-2 (CVCL

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Cell line name	TEL-2
Accession	CVCL_JZ63
Resource Identification Initiative	To cite this cell line use: TEL-2 (RRID:CVCL_JZ63)
Comments	Doubling time: ~20 hours (PubMed=1968393). Derived from site: In situ; Thymus; UBERON=UBERON_0002370. Cell type: Stromal cell of thymus; CL=CL_4030001.
Species of origin	Mus musculus (Mouse) (NCBI Taxonomy: 10090) Breed/subspecies: BALB/c.
Sex of cell	Sex unspecified
Age at sampling	2W
Category	Spontaneously immortalized cell line
Publications	PubMed=1968393; DOI=10.1002/eji.1830200108 Manabu Nakashima, Keiko Mori, Kenichi Maeda, Hiroyuki Kishi, Kazuho Hirata, Masaru Kawabuchi, Takeshi Watanabe; Selective elimination of double-positive immature thymocytes by a thymic epithelial cell line. Eur. J. Immunol. 20:47-53(1990) PubMed=8742694; DOI=10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(199603)244:3<271::AID-AR1>3.0.CO;2-1 Masaru Kawabuchi, Keiichiro Nakamura, Kazuho Hirata, Keiko Mori, Manabu Nakashima, Hiroyuki Kishi, Shariful Islam, Chong-Jian Zhou, Takeshi Watanabe; Morphological study of thymus stromal cells (TEL-2 cell) which play a role in the elimination of double positive immature thymocytes by phagocytosis. Anat. Rec. 244:271-283(1996)
Encyclopedic resources	Wikidata; Q54972047
Entry history
Entry creation	22-Aug-2017
Last entry update	30-Jan-2024
Version number	6