Cellosaurus cell line HBC (CVCL

Cellosaurus HBC (CVCL_M630)

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Cell line name	HBC
Accession	CVCL_M630
Resource Identification Initiative	To cite this cell line use: HBC (RRID:CVCL_M630)
Comments	Problematic cell line: Misidentified. Originally thought to be of human origin but found to be from rat (PubMed=557237; PubMed=20143388). Originally thought to originate from a breast carcinoma. Registration: International Cell Line Authentication Committee, Register of Misidentified Cell Lines; ICLAC-00024.
Species of origin	Rattus norvegicus (Rat) (NCBI Taxonomy: 10116)
Sex of cell	Sex unspecified
Age at sampling	Age unspecified
Category	Undefined cell line type
Web pages	Info; ICLAC; -; https://iclac.org/wp-content/uploads/Cross-Contaminations_v13_distribution.xlsx
Publications	PubMed=1016945; DOI=10.1016/S0304-3835(75)96769-5 Ivy Benjamin, Henry Pinkerton; Human breast carcinoma: heterotransplantation to newborn rats. Cancer Lett. 1:203-206(1976) PubMed=557237; DOI=10.1126/science.557237 Walter Anthony Nelson-Rees, Robert R. Flandermeyer; Inter- and intraspecies contamination of human breast tumor cell lines HBC and BrCa5 and other cell cultures. Science 195:1343-1344(1977) PubMed=20143388; DOI=10.1002/ijc.25242 Amanda Capes-Davis, George Theodosopoulos, Isobel Atkin, Hans Gunther Drexler, Arihiro Kohara, Roderick A.F. MacLeod, John R.W. Masters, Yukio Nakamura, Yvonne A. Reid, Roger Robert Reddel, Robert Ian Freshney; Check your cultures! A list of cross-contaminated or misidentified cell lines. Int. J. Cancer 127:1-8(2010)
Biological sample resources	BioSample; SAMN03152010
Encyclopedic resources	Wikidata; Q54881370
Entry history
Entry creation	05-Nov-2013
Last entry update	10-Apr-2025
Version number	15