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The animal cell culture collection

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The Animal Cell Culture Collection established by the Advisory Committee and cooperating laboratories at the American Type Culture Collection has been described. The description includes procedures and criteria for the acceptance and certification of cells, guidelines for future studies, and policies for the selection of cells. The aim of this Collection is to fulfill the needs of individual investigators for characterized reference cells in broad areas of biological and medical research. The aid of interested investigators in anticipating and meeting these needs is earnestly solicited.

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  1. J. E. Shannon (Curator of the Animal Cell Culture Collection)

    Present address: American Type Culture Collection, 12301 Parklawn Drive, 20852, Rockville, Maryland

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  1. Child Research Center of Michigan, Detroit, Camden, New Jersey

    C. S. Stulberg (Senior Research Associate Professor of Microbiology) &  J. E. Shannon (Curator of the Animal Cell Culture Collection)

  2. Wayne State University School of Medicine, Camden, New Jersey

    C. S. Stulberg (Senior Research Associate Professor of Microbiology)

  3. Institute for Medical Research (formerly the South Jersey Medical Research Foundation), Camden, New Jersey

    L. L. Coriell

  4. Cell Culture Laboratory, Naval Biological Laboratory, University of California, Oakland, Calif.

    A. J. Kniazeff (Head)

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Supported by USPHS Grants CA 02947 (Child Research Center of Michigan); CA 04953 (Institute for Medical Research); CA 04975 (ATCC); and contract PH 43-63-13 (Naval Biological Laboratory); from the National Cancer Institute.

The Animal Cell Culture Collection was formed by the Cell Culture Collection Committee in 1960. This committee later became the Advisory Committee to the Animal Cell Culture Collection of the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC). Its present membership includes investigators from laboratories cooperating in the program and others as follows: C. S. Stulberg, (Chairman), L. L. Coriell, L. Hayflick, A. J. Kniazeff (for S. H. Madin), D. J. Merchant, H. R. Morgan, F. H. Ruddle, K. K. Sanford, R. E. Stevenson, and J. E. Shannon,Secretary ex officio.

Acknowledgments. The authors wish to thank members of the Committee as well as the following individuals for contributions and advice in the preparation of this article: F. H. Ruddle, W. D. Peterson, Jr., A. E. Greene, W. Nelson-Rees, M. Macy, F. Montes de Oca, W. W. Nichols, J. Charney, and W. F. Simpson.

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Stulberg, C.S., Coriell, L.L., Kniazeff, A.J. et al. The animal cell culture collection. In Vitro 5, 1–16 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02618370

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