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  • adjective Having fewer than the diploid number of chromosomes

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From hypo- +‎ diploid

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Examples

  • Neutrophils from healthy volunteers were incubated with DFP (2.5 mM), and neutrophil elastase (NE) activity; hypodiploid DNA formation; caspases-3 and -8 processing and activity; exteriorization of phosphatidylserine (PS); oxidative burst activity and hydrogen peroxide release were measured.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Jennfier Tsang 2010

  • The earliest detectable evolutionary stage was a hypodiploid clone which, by clustering of the sequencing profiles of geographical "neighbor" segment sequences, appeared to have undergone five major steps of mutation, acquiring many additional focal amplifications and deletions of cancer genes including in one cases,

    MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians 2010

  • The numbers reported on the left and on the right of each histograms represents the mean percentage±SD of hypodiploid and of >

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • Confirmation of apoptosis was made by hypodiploid PI staining and loss of mithochondrial membrane potential.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Adi Tabib et al. 2009

  • Cells treated with H35N (a mutant of α-HL that remains as membrane bound monomer), have been shown to accumulate hypodiploid nuclei, activate caspases and induce intrinsic mitochondrial apoptotic pathway.

    Elites TV 2009

  • Apoptotic cells are characterized by a lower DNA content (hypodiploid cells) because of nuclear fragmentation.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Beatriz Santamaría et al. 2009

  • The numbers reported on the left and on the right of each histograms represents the mean percentage±SD of hypodiploid and of >

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Giuliana Gatti et al. 2009

  • Note the decreased number of hypodiploid apoptotic HPMC in TNFα/IFNγ/QM56 treated cells (black arrow).

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Beatriz Santamaría et al. 2009

  • BCR-ABL1-positive ALL, hypodiploid ALL, and ALL in infants) were excluded from this cohort.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2009

  • BCR-ABL1-positive ALL, hypodiploid ALL, and ALL in infants) were excluded from this cohort.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2009

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