Definitions

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  • noun biology A cell culture containing two different cell types
  • verb biology To culture together, usually with another type of cell

Etymologies

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co- +‎ culture

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Examples

  • Ph. D., of the department of otolaryngology, head and neck surgery, at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center in Israel, and colleagues used an in vitro Matrigel dorsal root ganglion and pancreatic cancer cell coculture model to assess the interaction between nerves and cancer cell migration, as well as the role of glial cell-derived neurotrophic factor.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • As observed in coculture with myoblasts, B16-GFP cells plated onto fully differentiated myotubes fuse with myotubes and do not secrete melanin (data not shown).

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Ara Parlakian et al. 2010

  • Medicine, Miami, has now provided new insight into the mechanisms regulating thyroid hormone action in the brain by modeling the process in an in vitro coculture system of human glioma cells and human neuroblastoma cells.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2010

  • Ph. D., of the department of otolaryngology, head and neck surgery, at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center in Israel, and colleagues used an in vitro Matrigel dorsal root ganglion and pancreatic cancer cell coculture model to assess the interaction between nerves and cancer cell migration, as well as the role of glial cell-derived neurotrophic factor.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • Myeloid colony-forming cells were maintained after seven days of coculture with mixed spheroids, and the frequency of cycling CD34

    Elites TV 2010

  • Now cutting-edge treatments, including microsurgery for varicoceles (varicose veins in the scrotum), the most common cause of male infertility; intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) for men with low sperm counts; and endometrial-cell coculture, a special technique for women with poor embryo quality, are further increasing couples 'ability to conceive.

    Newswise: Latest News 2010

  • C, Ward-van Oostwaard D, Doevendans P, Spijker R, van den Brink S, et al. (2003) Differentiation of human embryonic stem cells to cardiomyocytes: role of coculture with visceral endoderm-like cells.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Kemar Brown et al. 2010

  • B and E: cells treated as in A and D, were pulsed 1 h with peptide before coculture with M134. 12.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Virginie Renaud et al. 2010

  • Myeloid colony-forming cells were maintained after seven days of coculture with mixed spheroids, and the frequency of cycling CD34

    Elites TV 2010

  • Results: Wnt3a-dependent keratinocyte growth was suppressed by the addition of dihydrotestosterone in coculture with DP cells that were derived from AGA patients, but growth was not suppressed in coculture with DP cells from non-AGA males.

    The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism Current Issue 2009

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