Phenotypic analysis of an established cell line derived from a patient with Hodgkin's disease (HD).

This report describes the phenotypic analysis of a cell line obtained from a female patient with the nodular sclerosing subtype of Hodgkin's disease (HD). The cell line has a neoplastic karyotype and is stable in culture in the absence of feeder layers or growth factors. Phenotypic analysis of this cell line shows that it cannot easily be characterized as either a lymphocyte, macrophage or granulocyte but resembles in its characteristics certain HD lines already described in the literature. The cell line carries the antigen defined by the Ki-1 monoclonal antibody, shows myeloid markers on a proportion of cells and has cytoplasmic UCH-T1.