CELL LINES

Contributor Information
- Name Tamar Peretz
- Institute Hadassah Medical Center; Hadasit Medical Research Services and Development Ltd.
Tool Details
- Tool name: BR58 cell line
- Tool type: Cell Lines
- Organism: Human
- Tissue: Breast
- Cancer type: Gynaecologic cancer
- Disease: Cancer
- Model: Tumour line
- Description: This is an ovary cancer patient's derived cell line. Histology of serous papillary carcinoma. The line is derived from breast metastasis and it is positive for the BRCA1 c.68_69delAG, p.Glu23Valfs*17 (185delAG) mutation. When implanted to NSG mice it forms tumors. This line can serve as a platform for drug screening for cancer cells in vitro and in vivo.
- Research area: Cancer; Drug development
- Production details: The cells were derived from metastasis (pleural effusion) in a patient with serous papillary carcinoma.
- For Research Use Only