Table 1.

Tumor origin and source of the eight thyroid cell lines analyzed in this study

Cell line	Tumor origin	Gender	Source	References*
TPC-1	Papillary carcinoma	Female	Prof Dumont JE; Prof Mareel M; Laboratory of Experimental Cancerology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium	Tanaka et al. 1987 [10] Jossart et al. 1995 [15] Miura et al. 2003 [20] van Staveren et al. 2007 [21]
FB2 (TPC-1)	Papillary carcinoma	Female	Prof. Santoro M; Centro di Endocrinologia ed Oncologia Sperimentale, Napoly, Italy	Basolo et al. 2002 [16]
K1 (GLAG-66)	Papillary carcinoma	Male	Prof. Wynford-Thomas D; Department of Pathology, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, U.K.	Antonini et al. 1993 [19] Challeton et al. 1997 [18]
B-CPAP	Papillary carcinoma	Female	Prof Mareel M; Laboratory of Experimental Cancerology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium	Paulin et al. 1992 [29] Corso et al. 2002 [22] Dettori et al. 2004 [23] van Staveren et al. 2007 [21]
XTC-1	Follicular carcinoma (Hürthle cell)	Female	Prof. Savagner F; Laboratoire de Biochimie et Biologie Moleculaire, Faculte de Medecine, Angers, France	Zielke et al. 1998 [30]
HTH74	Undifferentiated carcinoma	Female	Prof Mareel M; Laboratory of Experimental Cancerology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium	Heldin et al. 1991 [31] Lee et al. 2007 [24]
C643	Undifferentiated carcinoma	Male	Prof Mareel M; Laboratory of Experimental Cancerology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium	Mark et al. 1987 [32] Lee et al. 2007 [24]
8505C	Undifferentiated carcinoma	Female	Prof Mareel M; Laboratory of Experimental Cancerology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium	Ito et al. 1992 [33] van Staveren et al. 2007 [21] Lee et al. 2007 [24]

* Only papers detailing the establishment (references in bold) or providing relevant genetic information for each cell line are indicated.