The invention provides a method for constructing a hepatic
progenitor cell-like
cell bank, including successively performing following processes to human primary
hepatocyte cultures from different donor sources: transformation-culture,
cryopreservation treatment, proliferation-culture, a first subculture treatment,
virus infection, a second subculture treatment, continuous selection-culture and continuous subculture. In the method for constructing a heterogenous immortal hepatic
progenitor cell-like
cell bank of the present invention, the human primary
hepatocyte culture of each of the donor sources is transformation-cultured before the proliferation-culture, which is beneficial in endowing the human primary
hepatocyte cultures with good proliferation performance. Once combined with subsequent controlling of culture parameter, the immortal hepatic
progenitor cell-like cell lines obtained from different donor sources may have good
in vitro proliferation ability. The invention also provides an application of the hepatic
progenitor cell-like
cell bank and cell lines obtained by the construction method.