Teratocarcinoma, cell lines, differentiation

Andrews P W, Damjanov I, Simon D, et al. (1984). Pluripotent embryonal carcinoma clones derived from the human teratocarcinoma cell line Tera-2. Differentiation in vivo and in vitro. Lab. Invest. 50 147-162. 

Embryonal carcinoma cell lines have also been established in culture from transplantable teratocarcinomas. The embryonal carcinoma (EC) stem cells present in the tumors actually differentiated, and give rise to a variety of different types of embiyonic and adult cells. When these EC cells are cultured, they still possess the... 

Loric S, Maroteaux L, Kellermann O, Launay JM. Functional serotonin-2B receptors are expressed by a teratocarcinoma-derived cell line during serotoninergic differentiation. Mol Pharmacol 1995 47 458-466. 

A pluripotent human teratocarcinoma cell clone, NT2/D1, which was derived from the Tera-2 cell line, was induced to differentiate into cells with neuronal cell morphology by treatment with berberine. As early as one day after a 24 hour treatment of cells with berberine at a non-toxic dose of 0.1 mg/ml in culture medium, the cells began to show morphologic... 

Lehman, J. M., Speers, W. C., Swartzendruber, D. E., and Pierce, G. B. 1974. Neoplastic differentiation Characteristics of cell lines derived from a murine teratocarcinoma. / Cell Physiol 84(1) 13-27. 

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