Nil2C2

Description: Species: hamster, Chinese female adult;
Tissue: ovary;
Transfected with the SSR1 somatostatin receptor;
Original line: CHO-K1

Description: Species: hamster, Chinese female adult;
Tissue: ovary;
Transfected with the SSR2 somatostatin receptor;
Original line: CHO-K1

Description: Established from the BHP-induced pancreatic carcinoma of a Syrian golden hamster (Mesocricetus auratus)(GN strain) in 1983

Description: Established from diethylstilbesterol-induced renal tumors of a 14-month-old male Syrian Golden Hamster in 1997; cells were described as expressing estrogen receptors, glial fibrillary acidic protein and other markers of the neuroectodermal lineage and as being responsive to estrogen

Description: Established after spontaneous transformation of cells isolated from the lung of a normal Chinese hamster (male). The G1 phase in these cells is either absent or very short. Consequently they have been used in studies of the G1 growth period. V79 is well established in toxicology studies. Stability of karyotype and morphology is making them suitable for gene toxicity assays with low background aberrations. The cells do not express endogenous cytochrome P450 and have been used for the insertion and expression of P450 from human, rat, mouse and fish. The cells have a high plating efficiency (80%), and a generation time of 12 to 14 hours. The line was renamed V79 by Elkind in 1958.

Description: Established from the lung of a Syrian golden hamster fetus on day 15 after gestation in 1981; primary culture cells were treated with hydroxy-proline; cells were described as premature epithelial cells with the ability to differentiate into mucus-producing pulmonary cells