Species: Human

Category: Cancer

Tissue of Origin: Esophagus

Cancer Type: Esophageal Carcinoma

Description

SK-GT-04 is a human esophageal carcinoma cell line.

Source

This cell line was established from an esophageal metastasis in a person with esophageal carcinoma.

Lead Researcher/Research Laboratory

• Anthony Albino, PhD, formerly with Memorial Sloan Kettering

Key References

Altorki N., Schwartz G.K., Blundell M., Davis B.M., Kelsen D.P., Albino A.P. Characterization of cell lines established from human gastric-esophageal adenocarcinomas. Biologic phenotype and invasion potential. Cancer 72:649-657(1993) (PubMed ID 8334620)

Licensing Information

This cell line may be licensed nonexclusively for research or commercial purposes.

• Express License: For internal research purposes by a for-profit entity: Fill out MSK’s Core Express License; see here for links to the online fillable Core Express License, as well as a PDF version. For detailed guidance on how to fill out this webform, see here. Please note:  In order to streamline and expedite the licensing of select MSK cell lines, the terms of this non-exclusive license are non-negotiable. This license is only available for select cell lines, including this one. Once this license has been executed by MSK, you will receive a signed copy and payment instructions; all payments up to $10,000 must be made by credit card.
• Commercial License: Contact MSK’s Tangible Research Materials team at [email protected].
• For non-licensing requests from academic-research institutions: Contact MSK’s Antibody & Bioresource Core Facility at [email protected].