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CULTURED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marked by refinement in taste and manners
Example:
polite society
Synonyms:
civilised; civilized; cultivated; cultured; genteel; polite
Classified under:
Similar:
refined ((used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb culture
Context examples:
The number of passages a line of cultured cells has gone through is an indication of its age and expected stability.
(Passage, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
This species is acid fast, stains with carbol fuchsin rather than a traditional Gram stain, has the longest doubling time of all known bacteria, and has never been cultured in vitro.
(Mycobacterium leprae, NCI Thesaurus)
Tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) harvested directly from infiltrate of a patient's melanoma and cultured with interleukin-2 to expand the TIL cell population.
(Melanoma Tumor-Reactive Autologous Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocyte, NCI Thesaurus)
Their functions include mediation of growth hormone action, stimulation of growth of cultured cells, stimulation of the action of insulin, and involvement in development and growth.
(Insulin-Like Growth Factor 2, NCI Thesaurus)
In cultured neuronal PC-12 cells, NGF induces neurite outgrowth via Mek1 and the map kinase pathway.
(MAP Kinase Downregulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
Adding calcium to the medium of cultured keratinocytes elevates intracellular calcium and triggers differentiation.
(Calcineurin Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
The cell line has provided model systems for the study of genetic alterations in cultured mammalian cells.
(CHO Cells, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
The cultured LCs are allowed to mature for one day and then electroporated separately with CT7, MAGE-A3 or WT1 mRNA before final maturation.
(Autologous CT7/MAGE-A3/WT1 mRNA-Electroporated Langerhans-Type Dendritic Cells, NCI Thesaurus)
Cultured human brain cells infected with this fungus also had higher survival rates when they were altered to produce more beta-amyloid.
(Alzheimer’s protein may have natural antibiotic role, NIH)
In cultured macrophages, cadmium acts both at the cell surface and in the cytoplasm to induce proliferation.
(Cadmium Induction Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
