ELAVL1 and hepatocellular carcinoma: HuR protein expression has been studied in several human and mouse liver cell lines; mouse liver progenitor 29 cell line MLP29, mouse HCC cell line SAMe-D, human hepatoma cell line HepG2, human HCC cell lines Hep3B, SNU-182, SNU-398, SNU-449, and SNU-475, as well as primary mouse hepatocytes isolated from a male C57BL6 and mainly immortalized normal hepatocytes CRL4020 [24,25].