Université de Fribourg

Establishment of immortalized murine mesothelial cells and a novel mesothelioma cell line

Blum, Walter ; Pecze, László ; Felley-Bosco, Emanuela ; Worthmüller-Rodriguez, Janine ; Wu, Licun ; Vrugt, Bart ; Perrot, Marc de ; Schwaller, Beat

In: In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Animal, 2015, p. 1–8

Mesothelial cells are susceptible to 10:38 05.06.2015asbestos fiber-induced cytotoxicity and on longer time scales to transformation; the resulting mesothelioma is a highly aggressive neoplasm that is considered as incurable at the present time Zucali et al. (Cancer Treatment Reviews 37:543–558, 2011). Only few murine cell culture models of immortalized mesothelial cells and mesothelioma...