African Green Monkey Kidney Cell

A cell line taken from the kidneys of the African green monkey, Cercopithecus aethiops sabaeus, and used to grow certain viruses (e.g., poliovirus and influena A and B) for vaccine production.

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Columbia, MD; 301-854-3900) announced it has been granted United States Patent 6,025,182 "Method for Producing a Virus from an African Green Monkey Kidney Cell Line" developed by Louis Potash, PhD, director of the Novavax biomedical services division.

Potash's African Green Monkey Kidney cell line has been officially recognized by the United States Patent and Trademark Office as important for the production of human vaccines, making the process more efficient and cost effective.

Novavax receives important patent covering the production of viral vaccines in a proprietary cell line

But now a line of African green monkey kidney cells known as Vero cells has been cleared for use in reverse genetics.

Flu vaccine production gets a shot in the arm

Human coronavirus (strain OC43) in different amounts was grown in African green monkey kidney cells and thereafter potential antiviral therapies ("the test compounds") were added.

SARS: Newly NIH Sponsored Studies of Potential Therapies for SARS Now Finds Hemispherx' Ampligen among the Most Active from a Large Pool of 70 -Seventy- Drug Candidates

In the study, AVI's NeuGene third-generation antisense compounds were delivered to pig and African green monkey kidney cells in cell culture.