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SNU-387 was derived in 1990 by J.-G. Park and associates from a primary hepatocellular carcinoma taken from a Korean patient who had been treated by transcatheter arterial embolization with lipoidol plus a combination of doxorubicin and mitomycin-C.
The cultured cells contain a single nucleus.
HBV genomic RNA was not expressed.
Park JG, et al. Characterization of cell lines established from human hepatocellular carcinoma. Int. J. Cancer 62: 276-282, 1995. PubMed: 7543080
