Caco-2

cell line
Taxon cell_line Q5016050
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Caco-2

Summary

Caco-2 is a cell line[1]. Caco-2 draws 47 Wikipedia views per month (cell_line category, ranking #6 of 37).[2]

Key Facts

  • Caco-2's image is recorded as CaCo-2 cells after 21 days in culture.tif[3].
  • Caco-2's instance of is recorded as cell line[4].
  • Caco-2's instance of is recorded as cancer cell line[5].
  • Caco-2's Commons category is recorded as Caco-2 cells[6].
  • Caco-2's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D018938[7].
  • Caco-2's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/072_ww[8].
  • Caco-2's MeSH tree code is recorded as A11.251.210.190.160[9].
  • Caco-2's MeSH tree code is recorded as A11.251.860.180.160[10].
  • Caco-2's MeSH tree code is recorded as A11.436.140[11].
  • Caco-2's described by source is recorded as One Hundred and Twenty-Seven Cultured Human Tumor Cell Lines Producing Tumors in Nude Mice23[12].
  • Caco-2's described by source is recorded as Absence of HeLa cell contamination in 169 cell lines derived from human tumors[13].
  • Caco-2's described by source is recorded as Epithelial polarity, villin expression, and enterocytic differentiation of cultured human colon carcinoma cells: a survey of twenty cell lines[14].
  • Caco-2's described by source is recorded as Human tumor lines for cancer research[15].
  • Caco-2's described by source is recorded as Distinction of seventy-one cultured human tumor cell lines by polymorphic enzyme analysis.[16].
  • Caco-2's described by source is recorded as Presence of glycogen and growth-related variations in 58 cultured human tumor cell lines of various tissue origins.[17].
  • Caco-2's described by source is recorded as Beta-catenin mutations in cell lines established from human colorectal cancers[18].
  • Caco-2's described by source is recorded as Centrosome amplification and instability occurs exclusively in aneuploid, but not in diploid colorectal cancer cell lines, and correlates with numerical chromosomal aberrations[19].
  • Caco-2's described by source is recorded as APC mutations in sporadic colorectal tumors: A mutational "hotspot" and interdependence of the "two hits"[20].
  • Caco-2's described by source is recorded as Comprehensive galectin fingerprinting in a panel of 61 human tumor cell lines by RT-PCR and its implications for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures[21].
  • Caco-2's described by source is recorded as Spectral karyotype analysis of colon cancer cell lines of the tumor suppressor and mutator pathway[22].
  • Caco-2's described by source is recorded as Permeability characteristics of parental and clonal human intestinal Caco-2 cell lines differentiated in serum-supplemented and serum-free media[23].
  • Caco-2's described by source is recorded as The Caco-2 cell line as a model of the intestinal barrier: influence of cell and culture-related factors on Caco-2 cell functional characteristics.[24].
  • Caco-2's described by source is recorded as Analysis of P53 mutations and their expression in 56 colorectal cancer cell lines[25].
  • Caco-2's described by source is recorded as Identification by Real-time PCR of 13 mature microRNAs differentially expressed in colorectal cancer and non-tumoral tissues[26].
  • Caco-2's described by source is recorded as Cell growth, global phosphotyrosine elevation, and c-Met phosphorylation through Src family kinases in colorectal cancer cells[27].

Why It Matters

Caco-2 draws 47 Wikipedia views per month (cell_line category, ranking #6 of 37).[2] Caco-2 has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Caco-2 is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . commons.wikimedia.org. commons.wikimedia.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Cellosaurus release 49. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Cellosaurus release 49. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] . Cellosaurus release 49. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Cellosaurus release 49. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Cellosaurus release 49. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Cellosaurus release 49. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Cellosaurus release 49. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Cellosaurus release 49. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Cellosaurus release 49. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Cellosaurus release 49. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Cellosaurus release 49. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Cellosaurus release 49. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Cellosaurus release 49. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . Cellosaurus release 49. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Cellosaurus release 49. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . Cellosaurus release 49. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Cellosaurus release 49. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . Cellosaurus release 49. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Caco-2. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/caco-2
MLA “Caco-2.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/caco-2.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_caco-2_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Caco-2}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/caco-2}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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