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. 1976 Feb;12(2):107-14.
doi: 10.1007/BF02796356.

Carcinoma of the esophagus in Africans: establishment of a continuously growing cell line from a tumor specimen

E Bey, J Alexander, J M Whitcutt, J A Hunt, J H Gear

Carcinoma of the esophagus in Africans: establishment of a continuously growing cell line from a tumor specimen

E Bey et al. In Vitro. 1976 Feb.

Abstract

Biopsy material, from a patient with an esophageal carcinoma of a type occurring relatively frequently in Africans in some regions of Southern Africa, has been adapted to cell culture conditions and has developed into a continuously growing tumor cell line. The cells have a squamous pattern of growth which they maintain, without piling up, even in heavily confluent cultures.

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