I am working on ureteral reconstrution with tissue engineering approach. For the project I need to find two human cell lines: uretaral cells and smooth muscle cells. I would like to use cell lines which require basic medium (e.g. DMEM, MEM, Ham's...) for their growth. Can you help me?
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For smooth muscle cell lines there is a number of possibilities, but could not find one for urethral cell line until I stumbled on the description of the THUEC cell line. As it was not yet in the Cellosaurus I created an entry for it:
ID THUEC
AC CVCL_XX84
SY Transduced Human Urethral Epithelial Cells
RX PubMed=12228311;
RX PubMed=17644708;
CC Transfected with: UniProtKB; P00552; Transposon Tn5 neo.
CC Transformant: NCBI_TaxID; 333760; Human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV16) [E6/E7 (pLXSN16)].
CC Derived from sampling site: Urethrea epithelium.
OX NCBI_TaxID=9606; ! Homo sapiens
SX Male
CA Transformed cell line
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It seems that as recently as last year a group managed to get it from Michael Apella who was the PI on the original paper:
https://medicine.uiowa.edu/microbiology/people/emeritus-faculty/michael-apicella-md
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