The glossary is an alphabetical list of acronyms and terms related to our products.
Amino Acids
Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens
Adrenocorticotropic hormone
Those which contaminate cell cultures eg viruses, bacteria.
Animal Health Laboratory, South Perth, Australia
Animal Health Trust, Houghton, UK
Approved Lists of Bacterial Names (Int.J.syst.Bact. 30, 225-420, 1980 and 32, 146-149, 1982)
Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA
Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
Cells which will grow, survive or maintain function only when attached to an inert surface (eg, glass or plastic).
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.
Appareils et Procedes d'Identification, La Balme-les-Grottes, France
Agricultural Research Council, Compton, Nr Newbury, Berkshire, UK
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.
American Type Culture Collection, 10801 University Boulevard, Manassas, VA, 20110-2209, USA
Cells which will grow, survive or maintain function only when attached to an inert surface (eg, glass or plastic).
Confirming by experimental means the origins and identity of a cell line.
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