Cellosaurus cell line FF (CVCL

Cellosaurus FF (CVCL_U308)

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Cell line name	FF
Accession	CVCL_U308
Resource Identification Initiative	To cite this cell line use: FF (RRID:CVCL_U308)
Comments	Characteristics: Pigmented. Derived from site: In situ; Skin; UBERON=UBERON_0002097. Cell type: Melanocyte of skin; CL=CL_1000458.
Disease	Hamster melanoma (NCIt: C133089)
Species of origin	Mesocricetus auratus (Golden hamster) (NCBI Taxonomy: 10036)
Hierarchy	Parent: CVCL_2711 (RPMI-1846)
Sex of cell	Sex unspecified
Age at sampling	Age unspecified
Category	Cancer cell line
Publications	PubMed=5556532; DOI=10.1111/1523-1747.ep12292072 George Lipkin; Pigment transformation and induction in hamster malignant amelanotic melanocytes. An effect of nucleic acids from hamster benign blue nevus. J. Invest. Dermatol. 57:49-65(1971) PubMed=4522794; DOI=10.1073/pnas.71.3.849; PMCID=PMC388112 George Lipkin, Margarete E. Knecht; A diffusible factor restoring contact inhibition of growth to malignant melanocytes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 71:849-853(1974) Patent=US4307082 Martin J. Rosenberg; Method for the extraction of a factor that mediates contact inhibition of cell growth. Patent number US4307082, 22-Dec-1981 PubMed=3734481; DOI=10.1111/1523-1747.ep12524360 George Lipkin, Martin J. Rosenberg, Vera Klaus-Kovtun; Contact inhibitory factor also restores anchorage and serum dependence to hamster melanoma cells. J. Invest. Dermatol. 87:305-308(1986)
Cell line collections (Providers)	ATCC; CRL-1479 - Discontinued
Encyclopedic resources	Wikidata; Q54834769
Entry history
Entry creation	03-Feb-2014
Last entry update	29-Jun-2023
Version number	7