Jurkat cell

noun

One of an immortalized line of T cells used in genetic research.

“The Jurkat cell line was established in the late 1970s from the peripheral blood of a 14-year-old boy with T-cell leukemia.”

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Meanings

nounJurkat cell (plural Jurkat cells)

plural Jurkat cells

  1. biologyOne of an immortalized line of T cells used in genetic research.

    The Jurkat cell line was established in the late 1970s from the peripheral blood of a 14-year-old boy with T-cell leukemia.

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