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PURGE CULTURE [1 record]

Record 1 1991-03-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cytology
CONT

Dr. X is now using this culture method, coined culture purging, which consists of growing the leukemic and normal cells outside the body in culture, but found that the leukemic cells died of more rapidly than normal cells.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cytologie
OBS

Par analogie avec purge de moelle, relevé dans Biofutur,1986, vol. 4, p. 56.

Spanish

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