Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having reverted to the normal phenotype, usually by a second mutation.
- noun A revertant organism, cell, or strain.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In heraldry: Flexed or reflexed—that is, bent in an S-curve.
- Bent twice at a sharp angle, like a chevron and a half.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective genetics That has
reverted to its formergenotype or to the originalphenotype by means of a subsequentmutation
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Examples
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The invisible X-rays that had killed the Radium girls in the 1920s could now be “seen” as revertant colonies on a petri dish.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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The invisible X-rays that had killed the Radium girls in the 1920s could now be “seen” as revertant colonies on a petri dish.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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The invisible X-rays that had killed the Radium girls in the 1920s could now be “seen” as revertant colonies on a petri dish.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Lu QL, Morgan JE, Davies KE, Fisher R, et al. (2006) Expansion of revertant fibers in dystrophic mdx muscles reflects activity of muscle precursor cells and serves as an index of muscle regeneration.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Gemma L. Walmsley et al. 2010
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Some authors suggest that natural, albeit low level expression of revertant dystrophin in humans may prevent any immune response on dystrophin reexpression induced through gene therapy
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Gemma L. Walmsley et al. 2010
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Production of these shorter, but likely functional dystrophin molecules occurs naturally in many patients with DMD, and can be demonstrated immunohistochemically, by the presence of revertant muscle fibres
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Gemma L. Walmsley et al. 2010
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Note the absence of expression of dystrophin (with the exception of occasional revertant fibers), redistribution of utrophin to the sarcolemma in both regenerating and non-regenerating fibers, expression of developmental myosin heavy chain and reduced/variable expression of β-dystroglycan in the affected dog in comparison with control.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Gemma L. Walmsley et al. 2010
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Replication of the N1L-deleted virus in cell culture has however been found to be indistinguishable from a wildtype as well as a revertant virus
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