Years ago we obtained some homozygous B cell lines from the ASHI Repository
in Boston, MA. I don't have any contact info for them, but if you can't
find any contact me and I'll go through my old records.
Paula Lavery
Transplant Immunology Laboratory
Royal Victoria Hospital
McGill University
mark wrote in message <371E1DBD.51D7 at mail.tju.edu>...
>Hello,
> I'm in a bit of a bind. We are setting up an MHC typing
>study using PCR-based approach (phototyping, tissue antigens, 1995,
>46:355-). All the papers that deal with PCR-SSP or PCR-followed by SSOP
>mention that control homozygous cell lines with defined haplotypes are
>used to validate the test. But there has never been a statement
>regarding where these cells can be obtained. I've emailed the last
>histocompatibility workshop secretary without much success. Does anyone
>know where these test cells can be obtained or are there human cell lines
>from atcc (also called them) that have known haplotypes?
>>THANX
>MARKH
