Table 4. Basic characteristics of commonly used mouse breast cancer cell lines.

Cell line		Origin	Latency	Pathology	Metastasis	Transfer site	References
d: Day; w: Week.
4T1	67NR	BALB/C	8–17 d	Luminal	Yes	Lung	Johnstone et al., 2015
	4T1.2			Basal	No
TM40D		BALB/C	1 w		Yes	Lung	Shi et al., 2001
D2A1		BALB/c	14–18 d		Yes	Lung, heart	Morris et al., 1993
EMT6		BALB/c	3–5 d		Yes	Lung	Duan et al., 2013; Rockwell et al., 1972
E0771		C57BL/6		Basal	Yes	Lung	Johnstone et al., 2015
MVT1		FVB/N		Luminal	Yes	Lung	Pei et al., 2004
6DT1		FVB/N		Luminal			Yang et al., 2017
M6		FVB/N	44 d	Luminal	Yes	Lung	Holzer et al., 2003
CST		FVB/N	20 d	Basal			Hámori et al., 2020
EAC		Outbred			Yes	Lung, liver, heart, bone	Mishra et al., 2018; Ozaslan et al., 2011