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Newly established gastrointestinal cancer cell lines retain the genomic and immunophenotypic landscape of their parental cancers.
Scientific reports - 21 Oct 2020
Hirsch Daniela, Seyfried Steffen, Staib Tobias, Fiedler David, Sauer Christian, Ried Thomas, Witt Stephanie, Rueckert Felix, Gaiser Timo
Abstract excerpt
Human cancer cell lines are frequently used as model systems to study molecular mechanisms and genetic changes in cancer. However, the model is repeatedly criticized for its lack of proximity to original patient tumors. Therefore, understanding to what extent cell lines cultured under artificial conditions reflect the phenotypic and genomic profiles of their corresponding parental tumors is crucial when analyzing...
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