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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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The South African Institute for Medical Research, The National Cancer Association and The South African Medical Research Council, for financial support.
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Bey, E., Alexander, J., Whitcutt, J.M. et al. Carcinoma of the esophagus in africans: Establishment of a continuously growing cell line from a tumor specimen. In Vitro Cell.Dev.Biol.-Plant 12, 107–114 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02796356
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