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Cellosaurus VK [Human embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma] (CVCL_Y578)

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Cell line name VK [Human embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma]
Synonyms Urumov-1
Accession CVCL_Y578
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: VK [Human embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma] (RRID:CVCL_Y578)
Comments Doubling time: 38 hours (PubMed=1322234).
Disease Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma (NCIt: C8971)
Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma (ORDO: Orphanet_99757)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Sex of cell Female
Age at sampling 20Y
Category Cancer cell line
Publications

PubMed=1322234; DOI=10.1016/0165-4608(92)90092-M
Urumov I.J., Manolova Y.
Cytogenetic analysis of an embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma cell line.
Cancer Genet. Cytogenet. 61:214-215(1992)

PubMed=23882450; DOI=10.3389/fonc.2013.00183; PMCID=PMC3713458
Hinson A.R.P., Jones R., Crose L.E.S., Belyea B.C., Barr F.G., Linardic C.M.
Human rhabdomyosarcoma cell lines for rhabdomyosarcoma research: utility and pitfalls.
Front. Oncol. 3:183.1-183.12(2013)

PubMed=23665679; DOI=10.1038/onc.2013.129
Sokolowski E., Turina C.B., Kikuchi K., Langenau D.M., Keller C.
Proof-of-concept rare cancers in drug development: the case for rhabdomyosarcoma.
Oncogene 33:1877-1889(2014)

Cross-references
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54993188
Entry history
Entry creation10-Apr-2015
Last entry update21-Mar-2023
Version number8