Cell Lines and Cell Strains in Current Use -

Name	Morphology	Origin	Age	Tissue	Ploidy	Characteristic
1.Finite cell lines
MRC5	Fibrolast	Human lung	Emb	Nor	Diploid	Susceptible to human viral infection
MRC9	Fibrolast	Human lung	Emb	Nor	Diploid	Susceptible to human viral infection
W138	Fibrolast	Human lung	Emb	Nor	Diploid	Susceptible to human viral infection
IMR 90	Fibrolast	Human lung	Emb	Nor	Diploid	Susceptible to human viral infection
Continuous cells lines
A9	Fibrolast	Mouse subcutaneous	Ad	Neo	Aneuploid	HFPRT-ve;deriv L929
BHK21 C13	Fibrolast	Syrin hamster	NB	Nor	Aneuploid	Transformable by polyoma virus
BR13A	Epithelial	Rat liver	NB	Nor	Diploid	Produce MSA
CHOK1	Fibrolast	Chinese hamster ovary	Ad	Nor	Diploid	Simple Karyotype
EB 3	Lymphocytic	Human	Ju	Neo	Diploid	EB virus +ve
GH1, GH3	Epithelial	Rat	Ad	Neo	Aneuploid	Produce growth hormone
HELa	Epithelial	Human	Ad	Neo	Aneuploid	G6PD Type A
L1210	Lymphocytic	Mouse	Ad	Neo	Aneuploid	Rapidly growing suspension
L5178Y	Lymphocytic	Mouse	Ad	Neo	Aneuploid
L929	Fibrolast	Mouse	Ad	Nor	Aneuploid	Clone of L-cell
LS	Fibrolast	Mouse	Ad	Neo	Aneuploid	Grow in suspension deriv. L929
MC17	Epithelial	Human breast pleural effusion	Ad	Neo	Aneuploid	Estrogen recep.+ve
P388D	Lymphocytic	Mouse	Ad	Neo	Aneuploid	Grow in suspension
S180	Fibrolast	Mouse	Ad	Neo	Aneuploid	Cancer chemotherapy screening
3T31.1	Fibrolast	Mouse swiss	Emb	Nor	Aneuploid	Adipose diff.
3T3A31	Fibrolast	Mouse BAL/c	Emb	Nor	Aneuploid	Contact inhibited; readily transformed
NRR49F	Fibrolast	Rat kidney	Ad	Nor	Aneuploid	Induction suspension growth by transforming
Vero	Fibrolast	Monkey kidney	Ad	Nor	Aneuploid	Viral susbrate and assay.