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Cellosaurus HC0708 (CVCL_UZ32)

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Cell line name HC0708
Synonyms HC7.08
Accession CVCL_UZ32
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: HC0708 (RRID:CVCL_UZ32)
Comments Group: Patented cell line.
Registration: International Depositary Authority, American Type Culture Collection (ATCC); CRL-12659.
Doubling time: 30.9 +- 0.4 hours (Patent=US6030789).
Transformant: NCBI_TaxID; 1891767; Simian virus 40 (SV40) [Note=pRSV-T].
Anecdotal: Developed and patented by Gillette as a model to replace the Draize rabbit eye test for evaluation of the eye irritation potential of products.
Derived from site: In situ; Eye, conjunctival epithelium; UBERON=UBERON_0006763.
Cell type: Epithelial cell of conjunctiva; CL=CL_1000432.
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Sex of cell Female
Age at sampling Age unspecified
Category Transformed cell line
Publications

CLPUB00479
Ward S.L., Walker T.L., Trocme S.D., Hallberg C.K., Kruszewski F.H., DiPasquale L.C.
Tight epithelial barrier established by transfected human conjunctival cell lines.
Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 39:S85-S85(1998)

Patent=US6030789
Ward S.L., Walker T.L.
Human conjunctival epithelial cell lines with an extended life span.
Patent number US6030789, 29-Feb-2000

Cross-references
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q93981252
Entry history
Entry creation25-Feb-2019
Last entry update05-Oct-2023
Version number10