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HeLa|ˈhiːlə|
[f. the name, Henrietta Lacks, of the patient from whom the original tissue was taken (cf. Obstetr. & Gynecol. XXXVIII (1971). 945).]
Designating a strain of human epithelial cells maintained in tissue culture and derived originally from tissue from a carcinoma of the cervix. Occas. absol.
1953W. F. Scherer et al. in Jrnl. Exper. Med. XCVII. 695 This cellular strain, designated as strain HeLa by one of the authors (G. G[ey]) when he obtained it from an epidermoid carcinoma of the cervix has been maintained in continuous serial culture passage in vitro from February 8, 1951, until the present. Ibid. 705 Cultures of strain HeLa cells are capable of producing large quantities of poliomyelitis virus. 1959Laboratory Invest. VIII. 278 Since the human cancer cell strain HeLa is in such wide use as an in vitro system for the study of cell processes, it appeared to be of value to study..aspects of DNA physiology in these cultures. Ibid. 283 The variability in DNA synthesis in HeLa is small in this medium. 1965C. H. Andrewes Common Cold viii. 65 A few lines of cells..have been growing happily for years and these have been sent all round the world, so that the best-known lines, such as HeLa cells from a human cancer..are used in hundreds of laboratories. |