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colonosphere en · NOUN

Etymology

From colono- + -sphere.

Meanings

  1. A colonic spheroid
    • It has been shown that SET knockdown was shown to negatively affect tumorigenesis in CML [ 32 ], and silence of SET with siRNAs in CRC cell lines induced a decrease in the cell growth and colonosphere formation ability in both number and size of the spheres formed [ 25 ]. 2015 April 14, Hao Liu et al., “Overexpression of PP2A inhibitor SET oncoprotein is associated with tumor progression and poor prognosis in human non-small cell lung cancer”, in Oncotarget, volume 6:

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