"HeLa Cells" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The first continuously cultured human malignant CELL LINE, derived from the cervical carcinoma of Henrietta Lacks. These cells are used for, among other things, VIRUS CULTIVATION and PRECLINICAL DRUG EVALUATION assays.
| Descriptor ID |
D006367
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A11.251.210.190.400 A11.251.860.180.400 A11.436.340
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| Concept/Terms |
HeLa Cells- HeLa Cells
- Cell, HeLa
- Cells, HeLa
- HeLa Cell
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| 2004 | 1 | 24 | 25 |
| 2005 | 0 | 19 | 19 |
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| 2007 | 0 | 11 | 11 |
| 2008 | 0 | 14 | 14 |
| 2009 | 0 | 23 | 23 |
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| 2011 | 0 | 20 | 20 |
| 2012 | 0 | 24 | 24 |
| 2013 | 0 | 28 | 28 |
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| 2017 | 0 | 9 | 9 |
| 2018 | 0 | 14 | 14 |
| 2019 | 0 | 19 | 19 |
| 2020 | 0 | 13 | 13 |
| 2021 | 0 | 9 | 9 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2026 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "HeLa Cells" by people in Profiles.
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Lee JS, Bui QT, Jo M, Morgan JS, Nasa I, Kettenbach AN, Shaw LM. Interaction of IRS2 with PLK1 protects cells from mitotic stress. Cell Death Dis. 2026 Apr 08; 17(1).
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Schooley A, Venev SV, Aksenova V, Lehman JW, Navarrete E, Pai AA, Dasso M, Dekker J. Interphase chromosome conformation is specified by distinct folding programmes inherited through mitotic chromosomes or the cytoplasm. Nat Cell Biol. 2026 Jan; 28(1):82-97.
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Pham TG, Ajayi O, He J, Sagarbarria I, Hardy JA, Wu J. Orthogonal RNA-regulated destabilization domains for three-color RNA imaging with minimal RNA perturbation. Nat Methods. 2026 Jan; 23(1):165-174.
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Pederson T. David Baltimore and the advent of eukaryotic RNA-binding proteins. Mol Biol Cell. 2026 Jan 01; 37(1):pe1.
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Johnson KM, Marley MG, Drizyte-Miller K, Chen J, Cao H, Mostafa N, Schott MB, McNiven MA, Razidlo GL. Rab32 regulates Golgi structure and cell migration through Protein Kinase A-mediated phosphorylation of Optineurin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2025 Apr 29; 122(17):e2502971122.
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Kim EY, Verdejo-Torres O, Diaz-Rodriguez K, Hasanain F, Caromile L, Padilla-Benavides T. Single nucleotide polymorphisms and Zn transport by ZIP11 shape functional phenotypes of HeLa cells. Metallomics. 2024 02 07; 16(2).
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Morrill SR, Saha S, Varki AP, Lewis WG, Ram S, Lewis AL. Gardnerella Vaginolysin Potentiates Glycan Molecular Mimicry by Neisseria gonorrhoeae. J Infect Dis. 2023 11 28; 228(11):1610-1620.
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Wang C, Ma H, Baserga SJ, Pederson T, Huang S. Nucleolar structure connects with global nuclear organization. Mol Biol Cell. 2023 11 01; 34(12):ar114.
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Song YB, Park SY, Park K, Hwang H, Carroll RS, Hsu VW, Kaiser UB. Trafficking-defective mutant PROKR2 cycles between endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi to attenuate endoplasmic reticulum stress. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 02 22; 119(8).
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van 't Spijker HM, Stackpole EE, Almeida S, Katsara O, Liu B, Shen K, Schneider RJ, Gao FB, Richter JD. Ribosome profiling reveals novel regulation of C9ORF72 GGGGCC repeat-containing RNA translation. RNA. 2022 02; 28(2):123-138.