[Preparation and characteristics of a cell line from transplantable Svec's leukemia]. / Poluchenie i kharakteristika kletochnoi linii iz transplantiruemogo leikoza Shvetsa.

The procedure for obtaining the CL-C5 suspension cell line from the transplantable rat leukemia (erythromyelosis) is described. Cytochemical and biochemical features of CL-C5 blast cells are established to be typical of T-cells at the differentiation stage, corresponding to thymocytes. The results obtained permit considering CL-C5 cell line as that having phenotypical indications of lymphocytes and retrovirus production lost due to the selection in the cell population.