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Establishment of a cell line from Indian bonnet monkey (Macaca radiata) kidney and its characterization.
Gogate Ssa b, K. Banerjee, Shobha Gangodkar, Sathe Ps
- aNational Institute of Virology, Pune, India
- bNational Institute of Virology , Pune , India
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Abstract
A cell line (MRK-90) has been established from a kidney tissue of a macaque monkey (Macaca radiata) of India. The cells are in 150th passage and have been characterized for morphology, chromosome number, isoenzyme patterns (LDH and MDH) and virus susceptibility. These studies indicate that the cells are epithelial like, heteroploid (2n = 65) and grow easily on glass surface/plastic surface without any difficulty. The cells are susceptible to a broad spectrum of viruses.