lyse

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The virus is then discharged from the cell at these exit sites, referred to as bacteriophages must break open, or lyse, the cell to exit.

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  • The virus is then discharged from the cell at these exit sites, referred to as bacteriophages must break open, or lyse, the cell to exit. —  CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
  • They found that the antibiotics clindamycin and azithromycin, which kill bacteria by inhibiting their protein synthesis, are more effective than a standard first-line treatment with the "beta-lactam" antibiotic ampicillin, which causes the bacteria to lyse, or burst.
  • In this scenario, you won't have enough weak and extraneous cells to require a cold or the flu to work its way through your body to identify and lyse them. —  NaturalNews.com
  • A cardinal property of activated CD8 T cells during acute viral infections is their ability to lyse and eliminate virus infected cells. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Splenocytes and lung lymphocytes from mice infected by the i.n. route were therefore tested for their ability to lyse virus infected target cells in ex vivo CTL assays. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
 

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