| GPEBP | granulocyte colony-stimulating factor promoter element binding protein |
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| GSFR | granulocyte colony-stimulating factor receptor |
| GM-CSA | granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating activity |
| CSF | cancer family syndrome; cerebrospinal fluid; cold stability factor; colony-stimulating factor; coron... |
| EF | ectopic focus; edema factor; ejection fraction; elastic fibril; electric field; elongation factor; e... |
| rmGM-CSF | Recombinant murine granulocyte-macrophage-colony stimulating factor |
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| GM-CSF | Anti-granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor |
| G-CSF | Granulocyte Colony Stimulating Factor |
| GM-CSF | Granulocyte Macrophage Colony Stimulating Factor |
| G-CSFR | Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor receptor |
| DNA molecules, recombinant | A combination of DNA molecules of different origin that are joined using recombinant DNA technology. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| DNA, recombinant | Biologically active DNA which has been formed by the in vitro joining of segments of DNA from different sources. It includes the recombination joint or edge of a heteroduplex region where two recombining DNA molecules are connected. (12 Dec 1998) |
| DNA technology, recombinant | A series of procedures used to join together (recombine) DNA segments. A recombinant DNA molecule is constructed (recombined) from segments from 2 or more different DNA molecules. Under certain conditions, a recombinant DNA molecule can enter a cell and replicate there, autonomously (on its own) or after it has become integrated into a chromosome. (12 Dec 1998) |
| technology, recombinant DNA | A series of procedures used to join together (recombine) DNA segments. A recombinant DNA molecule is constructed (recombined) from segments from 2 or more different DNA molecules. Under certain conditions, a recombinant DNA molecule can enter a cell and replicate there, autonomously (on its own) or after it has become integrated into a chromosome. (12 Dec 1998) |
| erythropoietin, recombinant | Erythropoietin prepared by recombinant DNA technology. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Gheel colony | A colony in Gheel, Belgium, originating in the 13th century, for the informal communal care, in private homes, of severely mentally disordered persons. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rough colony | A bacterial colony with a granular, flattened surface; this type of colony is usually associated with loss of virulence with respect to that of smooth colony's. (05 Mar 2000) |
| colony | <biology> A group of identical cells (clones) derived from a single parent cell. <cell culture> A clone of bacterial cells on a solid medium that is visible to the naked eye. (09 Oct 1997) |
| colony counter | A device which counts the number of colonies on an agar plate (a solid growth medium). (09 Oct 1997) |
| colony count, microbial | Enumeration by direct count of viable, isolated bacterial or fungal cells or spores capable of growth on solid culture media. Each colony (i.e., microbial colony-forming unit) represents the progeny of a single cell in the original inoculum. The method is used routinely by environmental microbiologists for quantifying organisms in air, food, and water; by clinicians for measuring patients' microbial load; and in antimicrobial drug testing. (12 Dec 1998) |
| colony-forming unit | <cell biology> An individual cell which is able to clone itself into an entire colony of identical cells. Irradiated mice can have their immune systems reconstituted by the injection of bone marrow cells from a nonirradiated animal. The injected cells form colonies in the spleen (hence s), each colony representing the progeny of a pluripotent stem cell. Operationally, therefore, the number of colony-forming units is a measure of the number of stem cells. Acronym: CFU (09 Oct 1997) |
| colony-forming units assay | A cytologic technique for measuring the functional capacity of stem cells by assaying their activity. (12 Dec 1998) |
| colony hybridisation | <molecular biology> A genetics lab technique used to identify which colonies of bacteria on an agar plate contain a particular sequence of DNA or a particular gene. The technique involves pressing a nylon or nitrocellulose membrane onto the plate so that each colony contributes a small smudge of itself to the membrane, then treating the membrane with chemicals and heat, then washing the membrane with a labelled probe to find the specific DNA sequence. The smudges which are indicated by the probe are then compared back to the colonies on the agar plate. This technique is often used in conjunction with experiments involving the making of genomic libraries. (09 Oct 1997) |
| mother colony | A colony which gives rise to a secondary colony (a daughter colony), the latter growing on the surface of the former; the mother colony is larger than the daughter colony, and the characteristics of the colony's may differ. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mucoid colony | A colony showing viscous or sticky growth typical of an organism producing large quantities of a carbohydrate capsule. (05 Mar 2000) |