Establishment of a New Renal Cell Carcinoma Cell Line and a New Experimental Renal Tumor Model

Case ID:
98-447

A tumor cell line from a primary papillary renal cell carcinoma (RCC) (nuclear grade III/IV).  This cell line, known as KCI-18, when implanted in the kidney of nude mice provides a xenograft tumor model of RCC.  The KCI-18 cell line is highly tumorigenic, with lung metastases forming from the primary tumor as in human renal cell carcinoma. 
 
File Number: 98-447
Patent Information:
For Information, Contact:
Joan Dunbar
Associate Vice President for Technology Commercialization
Wayne State University
(313) 577-5542
jcdunbar@med.wayne.edu
Inventors:
Gilda Hillman
Keywords:
Animal Model
Cancer
Research Tool