Biliary adenocarcinoma: characterisation of three new human tumor cell lines

A Knuth, H Gabbert, W Dippold, O Klein, W Sachsse… - Journal of …, 1985 - Elsevier
Three human cell lines from adenocarcinomas of the extrahepatic biliary tract were
established in permanent tissue culture. Mz-ChA-1 and Mz-ChA-2 were cultured from
mechanically dissociated gallbladder adenocarcinoma metastases and SK-ChA-1 was
grown from malignant ascites of a patient with primary adenocarcinoma of the extrahepatic
biliary tree. Cell doubling times in tissue culture are 3–4 days for Mz-ChA-1 and
approximately 2 days for Mz-ChA-2 and SK-ChA-1. All three tumour cell lines were …