axenic

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  1. adjective Not contaminated by or associated with any other living organisms. Usually used in reference to pure cultures of microorganisms that are completely free of the presence of other organisms.

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  • Analyzing this data set, we found that among the list of 443 genes reported by Sillo et al. [23] to be responsive to a switch from axenic growth of —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Nutritional requirements for reproduction of a temperature-sensitive nematode, reared in axenic culture. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • L. gibba bioassay procedures (like test vessel material, sterilisation and axenic culturing procedures) influence the sensitivity of the bioassay —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Actinomycin-D puromycin-HCl axenic cultures nematode, Neoaplectana glaseri —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • Mutations in the genes age-1 and daf-2 extend life span of Caenorhabditis elegans by 100 and 200\%, respectively, in axenic culture. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
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  1. a-1 + Greek xenikos, foreign (from xenos, stranger; see ghos-ti- in Indo-European roots).
 

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