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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 03, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Thomas P Dooley, San Antonio, TX (US);
Edward S Robinson, San Antonio, TX (US);
Assignee:
Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, San Antonio, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435 29 ; 435325 ; 424 937 ;
Abstract
A cell line of metastatic, pigmented, malignant melanoma cells made by exposing a litter of Monodelphis domestica suckling young to an accumulated dose of ultraviolet radiation and then continuing the ultraviolet exposure after the young are weaned to induce malignant melanoma tumors and culturing the tumor cells from lymph nodes. This cell line can be used to test anti-cancer agents in vitro. Further this cell line can be injected into Monodelphis domestica suckling young so that tumors develop in the animals, and the anti-cancer agents can be tested in vivo.