
| CELL LINE ORIGIN | |
| Organism | Chinese Hamster, Female | 
| Source/Tissue | Ovary | 
| Disease | Healthy | 
| Year of origin | 1957 | 
| CELL LINE FEATURES | |
| Morphology | Epithelial-like/Fibroblast-like | 
| Cell type | Epithelial | 
| Growth mode | Adherent, Monolayer | 
| Doubling time | ? | 
| Life span | Infinite (continuous culture) | 
| Transformed | ? | 
| Tumorigenic | ? | 
| Drug resistance | ? | 
| Products | ? | 
| Karyotype | Hypodiploid, modal chromosome number: 20 | 
| Proline synthesis | Deficient in proline synthesis | 
| GENE EXPRESSION | |
| APPLICATIONS | |
| Production of recombinant therapeutic proteins | |
| CULTURE MAINTENANCE AND STORAGE | |
| Culture conditions and handling | |
| Biosafety Level | 2 REF (It may differ in your country, follow the guidelines of your institute/country) | 
| Plating efficiency | ? | 
| Temperature | 37°C | 
| Atmosphere | Humidified incubator, 95% air + 5% CO2 | 
| Base medium | Ham’s F12 (2mM Glutamine) | 
| Complete culture medium | Ham’s F12 (2mM Glutamine) + 10% FBS | 
| Medium Renewal | 2 to 3 times per week | 
| Subculturing procedure | |
| Harvesting time | Subconfluent culture | 
| Split method | Trypsin or Trypsin/EDTA | 
| Split ratio | 1:3 to 1:8 | 
| Seeding density | 1 – 3 x 104 cells/cm² | 
| Split frequency | |
| Cryopreservation | |
| Cryomedium | Complete culture medium + 5% DMSO OR Growth medium + 20% FBS + 10% DMSO | 
| Storage conditions | Liquid nitrogen vapor phase | 
| AVAILABILITY / SOURCE | |
| American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) | |
| Public Health England Culture Collections | Product page link | 
| Sigma-Aldrich | |
| Japanese Collection of Research Bioresources (JCRB) | |
| Cell Bank Australia | |
| ACCEGEN BIOTECHNOLOGY  | |
| Abcam | |
| ThermoFisher Scientific | |
| CELL LINE IDENTIFICATIONS | |
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| Related cell lines | |
References
- Puck et al., 1958. Genetics of somatic mammalian cells. III. Long-term cultivation of euploid cells from human and animal subjects. J Exp Med. 108(6), 945-956. PMID-13598821; Full-Text Links: rupress, PMC2136918