tumorosphere

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noun

A spherical culture of tumor cells

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Meanings

nountumorosphere (plural tumorospheres)

plural tumorospheres

  1. A spherical culture of tumor cells

    Highly malignant MSDACs that were derived from metastatic sites exhibited CSC status and exerted robust tumorosphere formations ex vivo.

    2015 July 10, Faizan H. Khan et al., “Acquired genetic alterations in tumor cells dictate the development of high-risk neuroblastoma and clinical outcomes”, in BMC Cancer, volume 15, →DOI

Origin

From tumor + -o- + -sphere.

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Chicago

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