Re: Commercial QC Products for Leukemia/Lymphoma

PLM Enterprises and Designs (plem@erols.com)
Fri, 08 Aug 1997 01:47:58 -0400

Thanks wp!

P. Echeagaray

Wladyslaw Pajdak wrote:
>
> At 14:40 97 - 08 - 06 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> >Theresa,
> >
> >Try contacting the ATCC...sorry, don't have the address, but they are a
> >bank of thousands of cell lines from which you can purchase.
> >
> >(A'flowin' just down the road from you!......)
> >
> >P. Echeagaray
> >Flow Cytometry Services
> >Southern Research Frederick
> >Frederick MD
> >echeagaray@sri.org
> >
> >Theresa L. Fecik wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I'm a newbie here on this board--though, not necessarily a newbie in flow
> >> cytometry. I have about 10 years experience in flow--but, I have also
> >> been working in other areas of the lab at the same time, i.e.,
> >> hematology, coagulation, urinalysis, and special hematology testing. So,
> >> I guess I'm more a jack of all trades, rather than a master of this one.
> >> That is why I'm asking such a basic question.
> >>
> >> When I worked at the Johns Hopkins Oncology Center, and did flow
> >> cytometric analyses of leukemias, we used leukemia cell lines (KG1a,
> >> Daudi, and MOLT3 cells) as positive controls for our leukemia antibodies.
> >> The cells were supplied to us by one of the oncology research labs.
> >> Now I work at a community hospital that has a flow cytometry lab, and I
> >> no longer have access to these cell lines. Does anybody know if there
> >> are stabilized leukemia cell lines that are sold commercially? As you
> >> can see, they don't let me out of my cage too
> >> often.......................
> >>
> >> Thanks very much in advance for any information you can give me.
> >>
> >> Going with the flow,
> >> Terry Fecik
> >> Sinai Hospital of Baltimore
> >
>
> Internet address of AMERICAN TYPE CULTURE COLLECTION :
>
> http://www.atcc.org
>
> Good luck,
> wp
>
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> Wladyslaw Pajdak
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