Biosafety classification is based on U.S. Public Health Service Guidelines, it is the responsibility of the customer to ensure that their facilities comply with biosafety regulations for their own country.
Longevity studies carried out at NBL demonstrated that the cells could be propagated for 42 passages.
The ATCC has been informed by Dr. Anne B. Johnson, Department of Pathology and Neuroscience at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, that this cell line has an unusually low level of the enzyme aspartoacylase (0.028 mU/mg or less on repeat assays.

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