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hybridoma

noun

Etymology

From hybrid + -oma.

  1. borrowed from hybrida
  2. suffixed as hybridoma — “hybrid + oma”

Definitions

  1. A hybrid cell engineered from a lymphocyte and a tumour cell

    A hybrid cell engineered from a lymphocyte and a tumour cell; used to generate monoclonal antibodies

    • Athymic (nude) mice and rats were inoculated intraperitoneally with rat-mouse hybridoma cells secreting monoclonal antibodies to rat MHC class I antigens in order to improve the yield of antibodies.

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