I am looking for a rat cell line of adrenal gland / cortical cell  -type. I
have been looking at ATCC without success and would very much appreciate any
help.

Thank you for reading this.

Christophe Roos

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I shot off a response to this last night that I've tried to cancel.  It was
only a few minutes later while driving home that I remembered that your
message does specifically say cortical.  My first reaction had been to suggest
the PC12 pheochromocytoma line.  That may still be a good compromise, depending
on what you're doing.  Have you concidered using a mouse cell line from one
of the SV40 T antigen transgenic lines?  Another alternative might be primary
cells from bovine adrenal cortex.  

Mike