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.
The consistency of the line's characteristics has made it a useful tool in a wide variety of biochemical, immunological, virological and cell biological studies such as being used as a target cell for EBV superinfection studies. It also has proven useful in chemical induction studies of the latent EBV genome and in the propagation of various (retroviruses) oncornaviruses.
Each cell contains an average of 60 EBV genome copies.
The cells are EBNA positive (EBNA+) and surface immunoglobulin negative (sIg-).
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The NC-37 cell line was reportedly initiated by W. Korol from peripheral blood from a donor whose serum was positive for EBV antibodies as determined by immunofluorescence and virus coating test.
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