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Epidermoid carcinoma A-431
cell line / Homo sapiens / epidermis
- Animal species:
- Human, Homo sapiens.
- Origin:
- epidermoid carcinoma
- Age:
- 85 years old
- Tissue:
- epidermis
- Morphology:
- epithelial
- Tumoroids obtained:
- yes
- Molecular profile:
- EGFR, isoenzymes AK-1, 1 ES-D, 1 G6PD, B GLO-I, 2 Me-2, 0 PGM1, 1 PGM3, 1
- Tumorigenicity:
- yes, forms rapidly growing subcutaneous tumors in immunocompromised mice and colonies in soft agar
- Karyology:
- hypotriploid human cell line. The modal chromosome number was 74, occurring in 36% of cells. The number of cells with higher ploidy was 1.0%
- Contamination control:
- not detected
- Viral infection:
- not performed
- Species identity control:
- karyological, isoenzyme (LDH and G6PD) and immunofluorescence analysis. STR profile Amelogenin: X CSF1PO: 11,12 13S317: 9,13 D16S539: 12,14 D5S818: 12,13 D7S820: 10 THO1: 9 TPOX: 11 vWA: 15,17
- Application area:
- toxicology, oncology
- Culture method:
- in vitro, in vivo (see Appendix 1).
- In vitro culture conditions:
- Medium –DMEM fetal bovine serum 10%. passaging procedure - cell detachment using trypsin 0.25 %: Versene 0.02 % (1:3), split ratio 1:3 -1:5 cryopreservation – growth medium 65%, 5% DMSO, 30% fetal bovine serum (see Appendix 1).
- Physical state of the sample:
- frozen.
- Cryopreservation:
- liquid phase and nitrogen vapor (see Appendix 1).
- Viability after cryopreservation:
- 94% (trypan blue staining after thawing).
- History:
- D.J. Giard, et al. SA Aaronson
- Collections:
- A.P. Avtsyn Research Institute of Human Morphology, Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution "B.V. Petrovsky Russian Scientific Center of Surgery", ATCC.
- Patent, certificate:
- no
- Note:
- suitable for transfection, spheroids, oncology, immuno-oncology, toxicology
- Intended use:
- these samples are intended for laboratory research only.