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Science 25 March 1977:
Vol. 195. no. 4284, pp. 1343 - 1344
DOI: 10.1126/science.557237
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Science, Vol 195, Issue 4284, 1343-1344
Copyright © 1977 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Inter- and intraspecies contamination of human breast tumor cell lines HBC and BrCa5 and other cell cultures

WA Nelson-Rees and RR Flandermeyer

It is shown that the two most recently reported cell lines derived from malignant human breast tissue, HBC and BrCa5 are, respectively, rat and HeLa cell contaminants. The incidence of inter- and intraspecies contamination among 279 cell cultures from 45 laboratories in an 18-month survey is also presented.


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