How do you certify a cell line that is in no databank?

08 April 2020 0 1K Report

We have a neuronal Rat hypothalamus cell line that has not been deposited in any official repository, is not commercially available, nor has it been sequenced. How would you convince reviewers that this is really the cell line you claim it to be? Any markers?

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