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COLONY FORMING UNIT [2 records]

Record 1 2006-05-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Blood
  • Immunology
DEF

An individual cell which is able to clone itself into an entire colony of identical cells.

Key term(s)
  • colony forming unit

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sang
  • Immunologie
CONT

Efficacité des nettoyants à prothèses dentaires sur les biofilms de C. albicans et S. mutans. Une importante baisse de viabilité est observée après 25 minutes lorsque les prothèses sont immergées dans l'eau chaude. Le nombre d'unités formant des colonies (UFC) de S. mutans et de C. albicans accusent une baisse importante par rapport à la quantité présente à l'origine.

OBS

CFU : abréviation anglaise couramment utilisée en français.

Key term(s)
  • CFU
  • unité formatrice de colonie

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sangre
  • Inmunología
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Record 2 1996-03-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Microbiology and Parasitology
DEF

Colony-forming units: colonies of pluripotent stem cells located and quantified in the spleen.

OBS

Colonies grown in vitro interact with erythropoietin to give rise to morphologically identifiable erythroid cells.

Key term(s)
  • colony forming unit

French

Domaine(s)
  • Microbiologie et parasitologie
OBS

souvent, tout simplement, «colonies»

Spanish

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