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Wigle DA, et al. Molecular profiling of non-small cell lung cancer and correlation with disease-free survival. Cancer Res. 62: 3005-3008, 2002. PubMed: 12036904 
Tsao MS, et al. Autocrine growth loop of the epidermal growth factor receptor in normal and immortalized human bronchial epithelial cells. Exp. Cell Res. 223: 268-273, 1996. PubMed: 8601403Northern blot hybridization shows that immortalized HBE cells express high levels of mRNA for epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), transforming growth factor-alpha (TGF-alpha), and amphiregulin (AR), but not epidermal growth factor (EGF). Ref
Tsao MS, et al. Autocrine growth loop of the epidermal growth factor receptor in normal and immortalized human bronchial epithelial cells. Exp. Cell Res. 223: 268-273, 1996. PubMed: 8601403
Tsao MS, et al. Autocrine growth loop of the epidermal growth factor receptor in normal and immortalized human bronchial epithelial cells. Exp. Cell Res. 223: 268-273, 1996. PubMed: 8601403
The cell line was established from normal bronchus tissue taken at lobectomy for squamous cell carcinoma. The tissue used was at least 3 cm from the edge of the tumor.
Wigle DA, et al. Molecular profiling of non-small cell lung cancer and correlation with disease-free survival. Cancer Res. 62: 3005-3008, 2002. PubMed: 12036904
