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Establishment of Epstein-Barr Virus Growth-transformed Lymphoblastoid Cell Lines
Published on: November 8, 2011
Generation of continuously growing B cell lines by epstein-barr virus transformation
1National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Current Protocols in Cell Biology
|January 30, 2008
Abstract:
Primary cultures of cells tend to have a limited life span, which in turn limits the availability of a consistent population of cells to study. In this unit, Epstein-Barr virus produced by a marmoset cell line is used to transform B cells into a continuously growing cell line that produces no virus. These cell lines can be used as a constant source of cells for further study.

