Term Name
Jurkat
External Reference
Synonyms
JURKAT cell, JM, FCCH1024, FHCRC-11, JM cell
Aliases
Definition
Human T cell leukemia, established from the peripheral blood of a 14-year-old boy with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) at first relapse in 1976; often this cell line is called JM (JURKAT and JM are derived from the same patient and are sister clones), occasionally JM may be a subclone with somewhat divergent features.
Organs
blood, bodily fluid
Cells
T cell, leukocyte, hematopoietic cell, cancer cell
Developmental Slims
mesoderm, endoderm
System Slims
immune system