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Cellosaurus WMPa (CVCL_T689)

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Cell line name WMPa
Synonyms WMPA; Wisconsin-Minnesota Pronephros, strain A
Accession CVCL_T689
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: WMPa (RRID:CVCL_T689)
Comments Group: Amphibian cell line.
Derived from site: In situ; Embryonic kidney, pronephros; UBERON=UBERON_0002120.
Species of origin Lithobates pipiens (Northern leopard frog) (Rana pipiens) (NCBI Taxonomy: 8404)
Hierarchy Children:
CVCL_D6A0 (WMPa/V208)
Sex of cell Sex unspecified
Age at sampling Shumway stage 24 embryo
Category Spontaneously immortalized cell line
Publications

PubMed=4545299; DOI=10.3181/00379727-145-37981
Wai Y. Wong, Kenyon S. Tweedell;
Two viruses from the Lucke tumor isolated in a frog pronephric cell line.
Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. Med. 145:1201-1206(1974)

PubMed=1087310; DOI=10.1242/jcs.22.2.385
Kenyon S. Tweedell, Daniel C. Williams;
Morphological changes in frog pronephric cell surfaces after transformation by herpes virus.
J. Cell Sci. 22:385-395(1976)

PubMed=221384
Kenyon S. Tweedell;
Pronephric tumour cell lines from herpesvirus-transformed cells.
IARC Sci. Publ. 24:609-616(1978)

PubMed=1429360; DOI=10.1007/BF02631030
Kenyon S. Tweedell, Kristine Lazar;
Protein profiles of embryonic, adult and transformed frog kidney cells.
In Vitro Cell. Dev. Biol. Anim. 28:588-590(1992)

DOI=10.3354/dao027001
John W. Williams 3rd, Kenyon S. Tweedell, Doreen Sterling, Nikki A. Marshall, Carolyn G. Christ, Debra L. Carlson, Robert Gilmore McKinnell;
Oncogenic herpesvirus DNA absence in kidney cell lines established from the northern leopard frog Rana pipiens.
Dis. Aquat. Organ. 27:1-4(1996)

Cross-references
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54994354
Entry history
Entry creation03-Feb-2014
Last entry update02-May-2024
Version number9