Table 2.

Details of the esophageal cancer cell lines and normal epithelial cell line used in the study

S. no.	Name of the cell line	Type of differentiation	Background reference
1.	TE1	Well	Miyazaki et al. (2003)31
2.	TE2	Poor	Nishihira et al. (1993)32
3.	TE5	Poor	Terashita et al. (2002)33
			Miyazaki et al. (2003)31
4.	TE8	Moderate	Terashita et al. (2002)33
			Katsuta et al. (2005)34
5.	TE10	Well	Terashita et al. (2002)33
6.	TE11	Moderate	Katsuta et al. (2005)34
7.	TE15	Well	Miyazaki et al. (2003)31
8.	Het-1A	Normal esophageal squamous cells	Ando et al. (2007)29