Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Partially united or fused: said of spots or other color-markings that have a tendency to run together.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective biology Describing a
tissue culture in which the spatial relationships of the cells are intermediate betweensparse andconfluent
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word subconfluent.
Examples
-
To follow up from above discussion, one also needs to ponder that most of these kinds of studies are done on single cells using subconfluent cell culture substrates.
-
Cells of three wells each were trypsinized on day 1 to 5 and separately titrated in quadruplicates by co-cultivation of serial 10-fold dilutions of the harvested inocula with subconfluent uninfected MeWo cells
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Felix Wussow et al. 2009
-
Total RNA was extracted from subconfluent monolayers of cells.
-
Total RNA was extracted from subconfluent monolayers of cells.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Xi-Song Ke et al. 2008
-
Total RNA was extracted from subconfluent monolayers of cells.
-
Replication-deficient retroviruses were collected from the culture after 72 h and applied to subconfluent TSC2
-
a marker of the multipotent pericyte, was prominently expressed around confluence while adipogenic PPAR gamma was up-regulated already in subconfluent cells.
-
Charité-Medical Universiy, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany) was transfected into subconfluent HEK-GHSR1a cells using Lipofectamine 2000 (Invitrogen; Carlsbad, CA, USA) following the manufacture's protocol.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.