Cell line · CVCL_0194

C6

Cancer cell line, Rattus norvegicus. Rat malignant glioma. 10 papers.

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ConductScience Library. C6. Cell lines, record CVCL_0194. Release cell-lines-2026-11-14-0.1.0, 14 Nov 2026. https://conductscience.org/library/cell-lines/CVCL_0194

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Cell line

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Name: C6
Accession: CVCL_0194
RRID: RRID:CVCL_0194
Synonyms: C-6, C 6, RGC-6, RGC6, RGc6
Species: Rattus norvegicus (Rat)
Sex: Male
Age at sampling: Age unspecified
Category: Cancer cell line
Diseases: Rat malignant glioma (NCIt C64069)
Derived from: Brain (in situ)
Secondary accessions: CVCL_4060
Entry created: 2012-04-04
Entry updated: 2025-04-10

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Problems0

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Papers10

31 more articles give this line's RRID in its Methods without naming the line nearby, so they are not listed.

Paper	Journal	Year	How we know	Source
Proteomic dataset: Profiling of glioma C6 and astrocytes rat cell lines before and after co-cultivation.	Data Brief	2021	Cellosaurus cites it	PubMed
Evaluation of cell doubling time in C6 and Y79 cell lines based on seeding density.		2019	Cellosaurus cites it	DOI
The complete mitochondrial genome sequence of the rat C6 glioma cell line.	Mitochondrial DNA A DNA Mapp Seq Anal	2016	Cellosaurus cites it	PubMed
Rat brain tumor models in experimental neuro-oncology: the C6, 9L, T9, RG2, F98, BT4C, RT-2 and CNS-1 gliomas.	J Neurooncol	2009	Cellosaurus cites it	PubMed
Tumor cell invasion and gap junctional communication. II. Normal and malignant cells confronted in multicell spheroids.	Invasion Metastasis	1990	Cellosaurus cites it	PubMed
Tumor cell invasion and gap junctional communication. I. Normal and malignant cells confronted in monolayer cultures.	Invasion Metastasis	1990	Cellosaurus cites it	PubMed
[Possibility of overcoming of ACNU resistance in an ACNU-resistant subline of C6 rat glioma].	No To Shinkei	1986	Cellosaurus cites it	PubMed
The animal cell culture collection.		1970	Cellosaurus cites it	DOI
Differentiated rat glial cell strain in tissue culture.	Science	1968	Cellosaurus cites it	PubMed
Establishment of differentiated clonal strains of glial brain cells in culture.		1968	Cellosaurus cites it	Cellosaurus

Relatives10

Relation	Cell line	Accession	Source
Derived from it	C6 rho-0#14	CVCL_ZB60	Cell lines
Derived from it	C6-BU-1	CVCL_1970	Cell lines
Derived from it	C6-SF2	CVCL_6336	Cell lines
Derived from it	C6-TK	CVCL_E9CD	Cell lines
Derived from it	C6/ACNU	CVCL_4V35	Cell lines
Derived from it	C6/Cas9-hyg	CVCL_C9FG	Cell lines
Derived from it	C6/lacZ	CVCL_5657	Cell lines
Derived from it	C6TK-	CVCL_5H90	Cell lines
Derived from it	C6rho0	CVCL_B7TS	Cell lines
Derived from it	HyCyte C6-Luc	CVCL_E3GZ	Cell lines

Cell banks18

Cell bank	Catalog number	Source
ABM	T8961	ABM
ATCC	CCL-107	ATCC
BCRC	60046	BCRC
BCRJ	0057	BCRJ
CLS	500142	CLS
DSMZ	ACC-550	DSMZ
ECACC	92090409	ECACC
ICLC	ATL95007	ICLC
IZSLER	BS TCL 5	Cellosaurus
JCRB	IFO50110	JCRB

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Data dates

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Cellosaurus: 2026-10-22; Cellosaurus
PubMed Central's articles: 2026-11-12; PubMed Central's articles
Our copy of PubMed: 2026-11-06; Our copy of PubMed

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