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Cell line
A group of identical cells that can be maintained in the laboratory indefinitely because they are able to thrive and reproduce themselves in vitro.
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Cell kill
In antineoplastic therapy, the number of malignant tumor cells destroyed by a treatment.
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Cell growth cycle
The order of physical and biochemical events that occur during the growth of cells. In tissue culture studies, the cyclic changes are divided into specific periods or phases: the DNA synthesis or S period, the G2 period or gap, the M or mitotic period, and the G1 period.
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Cell-free
Pertaining to fluids or tissues that contain no cells or in which all the cells have been disintegrated by laboratory treatment.
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Electronic cell counter
An electronic instrument used to count blood cells, employing either an electrical resistance or an optical gating technique.
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Cell-based therapy
The use of living cells as therapeutic agents. Possible examples include dendritic cells, to initiate immune responses to particular cancers; stem cells, as a source for tissue replacement, repair, or gene delivery; and tumor cells, to create antigen targets for the immune system.
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Wandering cell
A rarely used term for a cell (such as a macrophage) that moves like an ameba.
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Undifferentiated cell
A cell resembling an embryonic cell in that it has not demonstrated a change into a mature cell of any type.
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Tear-drop cell
An abnormally shaped blood cell, sometimes found on blood smears of patients with bone marrow fibrosis, iron deficiency, or thalassemias.
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Taste cell
One of the neuroepithelial cells within a taste bud that are receptors for the sense of taste. Each possesses on the free surface a short gustatory hair that projects through the inner taste pore.
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