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Cells > Connective Tissue Cells > Fibroblasts > COS Cells
Cells > Cells, Cultured > Cell Line > Cell Line, Transformed > COS Cells

Preferred term

COS Cells  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Cell, COS-1
  • Cell, COS-7
  • Cells, COS-1
  • Cells, COS-7
  • COS-1 Cell
  • COS 1 Cells
  • COS-1 Cells
  • COS-7 Cell
  • COS 7 Cells
  • COS-7 Cells

Note

  • almost always NIM with no subheadings; check ANIMALS & add CHLOROCEBUS AETHIOPS (NIM)

Scope note

  • CELL LINES derived from the CV-1 cell line by transformation with a replication origin defective mutant of SV40 VIRUS, which codes for wild type large T antigen (ANTIGENS, POLYOMAVIRUS TRANSFORMING). They are used for transfection and cloning. (The CV-1 cell line was derived from the kidney of an adult male African green monkey (CHLOROCEBUS AETHIOPS).)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D019556

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