Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to cytolysis; having cell-destroying properties.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
cytolysis
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- adjective of or relating to cytolysis, the dissolution or destruction of a cell
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Examples
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Identification of novel cytolytic peptides as key virulence determinants for community-associated MRSA.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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Identification of novel cytolytic peptides as key virulence determinants for community-associated MRSA.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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Identification of novel cytolytic peptides as key virulence determinants for community-associated MRSA.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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The agents of this complex enterprise of surveillance are, once again, the lymphocytes -- specifically, cytolytic T lymphocytes.
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Again, cytolytic T cells are incapable of detecting an antigen -- be it a snippet of flu virus or a scrap of MAGE-1 -- unless it is presented on the surface of the cell by MHC molecules.
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Knuth turned his attention to the relationship between a subset of immune cells known as cytolytic ( "cell-killing") T lymphocytes and Frau H. 's melanoma cells.
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The German researchers peering into their lab dishes saw, to their surprise, that a small number of Frau H. 's cytolytic T lymphocytes not only recognized the melanoma cells from her body but killed them in the test tube.
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Debré, Judith Kapp, and Carl Waltenbaugh; we analyzed the specificity of cytolytic T lymphocyte in relation to Ir gene function with Steven Burakoff and Robert Finberg and demonstrated how alloreactivity arises as a consequence of the commitment of T lymphocytes to recognize antigen in the context of autologous MHC gene products.
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By binding to CD3 co-receptor on the T cell, the antibody activates the immune system T cell and instigates the delivery of the T cell cytolytic proteins, perforins and granzymes, into the cancer cells.
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Human cell exposure assays of Bacillus thuringiensis commercial insecticides: production of Bacillus cereus-like cytolytic effects from outgrowth of spores.
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