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NUCLEAR TRANSFER CLONING [2 records]

Record 1 2017-12-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Genetics
CONT

Nuclear transfer cloning could eventually make it possible to use cell samples from a burn or accident victim to generate his or her own replacement skin, cartilage, and bone tissue. The same technique may produce cells that can be used in cancer therapy, or to regenerate retinal or spinal cord tissue.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Génétique
DEF

[Clonage qui] consiste à introduire, dans le cytoplasme d'un ovule non fécondé dont on a retiré le matériel nucléaire, le noyau d'une cellule provenant d'un embryon, d'un fœtus ou d'un organisme adulte.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Genética
DEF

Transferencia de núcleos procedentes de blastómeros embrionarios o de células fetales en cultivo a óvulos no fecundados enucleados y a veces, a zigotos enucleados. El "progenitor" de los clones es el embrión o feto.

CONT

Paraclonación: por transferencia de núcleos de células embrionarias o fetales de un cultivo primario o de un cultivo celular. Estos núcleos se transfieren a un óvulo enucleado o a un zigoto al que se le hayan eliminado los pronúcleos. Este óvulo receptor aporta mitocondrias, y en el caso de zigoto, algo del espermatozoide. El resultado: individuos casi idénticos entre sí, pero diferentes de los progenitores del embrión que aportó el núcleo transferido. Se pierde una generación, ya que el embrión donante del núcleo se destruye. Los individuos nacidos así se parecerían (desde el punto de vista del genoma nuclear) al individuo que hubiera surgido del embrión destruido.

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Record 2 2015-12-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biotechnology
  • Genetics
  • Reproduction (Medicine)
CONT

Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) cloning ... is accomplished by taking two cells – an egg cell from a female and a somatic cell from the person or animal to be cloned. The nucleus of the egg cell is removed and discarded. The nucleus from the somatic cell is then transferred to the [enucleated] egg cell. The egg cell and its new nucleus are fused together with the expectation it will grow. If cell division and growth is accomplished, the clone’s life has begun.

Key term(s)
  • cloning by somatic cell nuclear transfer
  • reproductive cloning by somatic cell nuclear transfer

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biotechnologie
  • Génétique
  • Reproduction (Médecine)
DEF

Transfert nucléaire[, en provenance d'une cellule somatique,] dans un ovocyte énucléé suivi de l'implantation de l'embryon dans un utérus maternel en vue de la naissance d'un individu cloné.

OBS

clonage reproductif par transfert nucléaire : terme publié au Journal officiel de la République française le 15 septembre 2013.

Spanish

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