From owner-drosophila@net.bio.net Tue Feb 15 22:00:00 1994 Path: biosci!bcm!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!robertson4.life.uiuc.edu!user From: d-lampe@uiuc.edu (David Lampe) Newsgroups: bionet.drosophila Subject: Re: Drosophila cell culture Followup-To: bionet.drosophila Date: 16 Feb 1994 22:07:04 GMT Organization: Univ. Illinois Lines: 24 Distribution: world Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: robertson4.life.uiuc.edu In article , genecutl@mendel.berkeley.edu (gc) wrote: > > > Does anybody know the origins of the Schneider cell and Kc cell lines? > I would really appreciate any references on the original cloning of these > cell lines (my lit searches have turned up nothing). > Thanks. > > -- > --gc > I beleive the origin of Kc cells are embryonic cells, specifically those of the haemopoetic organ. Peter or Lucy Cherbas have a paper somewhere noting this but I can't lay my hands on the citation. David Lampe 320 Morrill Hall Dept. Entomology University of Illinois 505 S. Goodwin Urbana, IL 61801 d-lampe@uiuc.edu .