Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To remove (living tissue) from the natural site of growth and place in a medium for culture.
- noun Explanted tissue.
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- noun botany Any portion taken from a plant that will be used to initiate a culture. It can be a portion of the shoot or of the leaves or even just some cells.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Paul explant, and I are going to make the soup tonight in New Orleans.
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Lettuce and cabbage are examples of vegetable crops in which adventitious plantlets have originated directly from the primary explant.
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"If (they) tell us that as a precautionary measure it would be better to explant (remove the implants from) women, we'll do it too," he said.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Rebecca Smith 2011
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Current analysis of renal development relies heavily on explant organ culture and visualization by confocal microscopy, as a more developmentally advanced native tissue is too thick for conventional microscopic imaging.
Naturejobs - All Jobs Kieran M Short 2010
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They confirmed that explant cultures with a longer incubation period are valuable for studying the death and repair of the trophoblast and for investigating the chronic regulation of placental function under pathological conditions.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Tai-Ho Hung et al. 2010
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Safety was evaluated by measuring the effect on the viability of vaginal flora, PBMCs, epithelial cells, and ectocervical and colorectal explant tissues.
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Topical and systemic tenofovir were effective at preventing HIV-1 infection of explant cultures.
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Using tissue explant cultures we found that Langerhans cells (LCs) in foreskin alter their cellular protein expression in response to external stimuli.
Naturejobs - All Jobs K M Fahrbach 2010
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Additionally, polarized ectocervical and colorectal explant cultures were treated apically with either gel.
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The chondroprotective study using porcine cartilage explant showed that GlcN-S had the strongest effect.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Thanyaluck Phitak 2010
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