Hugueny J

ORCID: 0009-0004-9223-7052 · 1 paper in corpus
2021
Primary ectocervical epithelial cells display lower permissivity to Chlamydia trachomatis than HeLa cells and a globally higher pro-inflammatory profile.
Scientific reports ·doi:10.1038/s41598-021-85123-7

The tumoral origin and extensive passaging of HeLa cells, a most commonly used cervical epithelial cell line, raise concerns on their suitability to study the cell responses to infection. The present study was designed to isolate primary ep…