Abstract
A new hepatocellular carcinoma cell line, DELSH-5, derived from operative wedge biospy from a HBsAg sero- and tissue-positive patient, has been continuously propagated in vitro for nearly 22 months. The cells not only resemble hepatocytes on light and electron microscopic examination but also possess biosynthetic markers of the latter such as albumin and alpha-foetoprotein which were demonstrated in the supernatant medium as well as in the tumour cell cytoplasm. Karyology of cloned cells shows moderate aneuploidy, the major model chromosome number being 61. Though in the initial few passages HBsAg could not be detected, from the 13th passage onwards this viral component could be consistently demonstrated in small amounts in the concentrated supernatant medium by the macro- and micro-ELISA techniques. The immunohistochemical techniques as well as electron microscopy have failed to demonstrate any virus component inside the cell. The cell line reported here is the third of its kind which will act as a useful laboratory model to obtain pure HBsAg and to study the hepatitis-B-virus--liver-cell interaction with particular reference to the oncogenic potential of the virus.
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