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• AA

  Amino Acids

• ACDP

  Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens

• ACTH

  Adrenocorticotropic hormone

• Adventitious Agents

  Those which contaminate cell cultures eg viruses, bacteria.

• AHL

  Animal Health Laboratory, South Perth, Australia

• AHT

  Animal Health Trust, Houghton, UK

• AL

  Approved Lists of Bacterial Names (Int.J.syst.Bact. 30, 225-420, 1980 and 32, 146-149, 1982)

• AMC

  Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA

• AMNH

  American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA

• AMRC

  Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark

• Anchorage-Dependant Cells

  Cells which will grow, survive or maintain function only when attached to an inert surface (eg, glass or plastic).

• Aneuploid

  The situation which exists when the nucleus of a cell does not contain an exact multiple of the haploid number of chromosomes; one or more chromosomes being present in greater or lesser number than the rest. The chromosomes may or may not show rearrangements.

• API

  Appareils et Procedes d'Identification, La Balme-les-Grottes, France

• ARC

  Agricultural Research Council, Compton, Nr Newbury, Berkshire, UK

• Aseptic Technique

  Procedures used to prevent the introduction of fungi, bacteria, viruses, mycoplasma or other micro-organisms into cell, tissue and organ cultures. Although these procedures are used to prevent microbial contamination of cultures, they also prevent cross contamination of cell cultures as well. These procedures may or may not exclude the introduction of infectious molecules.

• ATCC

  American Type Culture Collection, 10801 University Boulevard, Manassas, VA, 20110-2209, USA

• Attached Cells

  Cells which will grow, survive or maintain function only when attached to an inert surface (eg, glass or plastic).

• Authentication

  Confirming by experimental means the origins and identity of a cell line.