Cancer Res Treat. 2005 Feb;37(1):1-19. doi: 10.4143/crt.2005.37.1.1. Epub 2005 Feb 28.
Biology of SNU cell lines.
Cancer research and treatment
Ja-Lok Ku, Jae-Gahb Park
Affiliations
Affiliations
- Korean Cell Line Bank, Laboratory of Cell Biology, Cancer Research Center and Cancer Research Institute, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
PMID: 19956504
PMCID: PMC2785416 DOI: 10.4143/crt.2005.37.1.1
Abstract
SNU (Seoul National University) cell lines have been established from Korean cancer patients since 1982. Of these 109 cell lines have been characterized and reported, i.e., 17 colorectal carcinoma, 12 hepatocellular carcinoma, 11 gastric carcinoma, 12 uterine cervical carcinoma, 17 B-lymphoblastoid cell lines derived from cancer patients, 5 ovarian carcinoma, 3 malignant mixed Mllerian tumor, 6 laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma, 7 renal cell carcinoma, 9 brain tumor, 6 biliary tract, and 4 pancreatic carcinoma cell lines. These SNU cell lines have been distributed to biomedical researchers domestic and worldwide through the KCLB (Korean Cell Line Bank), and have proven to be of value in various scientific research fields. The characteristics of these cell lines have been reported in over 180 international journals by our laboratory and by many other researchers from 1987. In this paper, the cellular and molecular characteristics of SNU human cancer cell lines are summarized according to their genetic and epigenetic alterations and functional analysis.
Keywords: Cancer; Cancer research; Cell culture; Cell line; SNU
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