Meaning of cancercell | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

Examples

“Portions of the cancercells were treated with dilute boiling caustic potash until a thin film of it floated on the surface of the liquid.”

“French experimentators want⟳ to have⟳ observed, that the cancercell is most sensible for radiation during the cellpartition.”

“On a drop of a cancercell-suspension, 1ᶜᶜ being added to normal serum and being allowed to stand⟳ for some hours at 37°, it was found, that a part of these cells had been dissolved.”

“[…] wherein alcoholic extracts from the urine of cancer or non-cancer patients are brought into reaction with the sera of rabbits immunised beforehand by intravenous injections with isolated and washed cancercells.”

“[…] it could later on be proven that the normal substance of Freund was indeed a proteolytic enzyme with cancercell-dissolving property.”

“How does a cancercell arise⟳? […] The difference between a normal cell and a cancercell resides in their genes. Transformation of a normal cell to a cancercell thus requires a change⟳ in the genetic material.”

“However, the very same phenomenon of cancercells is regarded in a different context, a medical one, in terms of normative attributes such as "pathological" or "malfunction".”

“Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as oxaliplatin and etoposide, work⟳ in different ways to stop⟳ the growth of cancercells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing.”

“Although the suicide concept should usually lead⟳ to low systemic toxicity most of the products used have⟳ inherent side effects and most of the end⟳ products have⟳ limited cancercell toxicity.”

“We may, for example, again use⟳ oncogenesis or cancercell formation as a useful probe.”

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