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Confluency — In cell culture biology, confluency is the term commonly used as a measure of the number of the cells in a cell culture dish or a flask, and refers to the coverage of the dish or the flask by the cells. For example, 100 percent confluency means… … Wikipedia
Confluence (disambiguation) — Confluence, in geography, describes the meeting of two or more bodies of water. Confluence may also refer to: Confluence (abstract rewriting), a property of term rewriting systems Confluence (meteorology), the streamline air flow convergence of a … Wikipedia
Trypsinization — For experimental purposes, cells are often cultivated in containers that take the form of plastic flasks or plates. In such flasks, cells are provided with growth medium comprised of the essential nutrients required for proliferation, and the… … Wikipedia
SH-SY5Y — HistoryThe cell line SH SY5Y is a third generation neuroblastoma, cloned from SH SY5, which is from SH SY, which is from SK N SH. The original cell line was isolated from a woman s metastatic bone tumor in 1970. In each successive generation, the … Wikipedia
Passaging — In cell culture, the passaging is the process of sub culturing cells. It is usually done to produce large number of cells from pre existing ones. Instances where it is followed include vaccine production labs and clonal expansion.In the average… … Wikipedia
T-cadherin — also known as cadherin 13, H cadherin (heart) (CDH13) is a unique member of cadherin superfamily because it lacks the transmembrane and cytoplasmic domains and is anchored to the cells membrane through the GPI anchor. Classical cadherins are… … Wikipedia
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Impalila — May 2010 satellite view of the Zambezi floodplain, west of the Zambezi Chobe confluency, showing Impalila Island on the right edge of the picture. Impalila (sometimes spelt Mpalila) is an island at the far eastern tip of Namibia, bounded on the… … Wikipedia
Optical transfection — is the process of introducing nucleic acids into cells using light. Typically, a laser is focussed to a diffraction limited spot ( 1 µm diameter) using a high numerical aperture microscope objective. The plasma membrane of a cell is then… … Wikipedia
