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SaOS-2 (human, Caucasian, bone, osteosarcoma)

Continuous culture, grown as monolayer
epithelial-like morphology
SPECIES: human, Caucasian (female, 11 years old)
TISSUE/ORGAN: bone
TUMOR: osteosarcoma

Available in the following LABORATORY:

Availability in cell line catalogues: ATCC: HTB 85, IZSBS: BS TLC 90, DSMZ: ACC 243, ICLC: HTL01001, ECACC: 89050205

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For information, get in touch with: IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San MartinoLargo Rosanna Benzi, 10 - I-16132 Genova - ItalyDott.ssa Paola ViscontiEmail: paola.visconti@hsanmartino.it If you want to cite CLDB and HyperCLDB, please use the following reference:P. Romano, A. Manniello, O. Aresu, M. Armento, M. Cesaro, B. Parodi.Cell Line Data Base: structure and recent improvements towards molecular authentication of human cell lines.Nucleic Acids Research 2009 37(Database issue):D925-D932.DOI: doi:10.1093/nar/gkn730; PMID: 18927105