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microisolator en · NOUN

Etymology

From micro- + isolator.

Meanings

  1. A kind of animal cage with a filter to keep out microorganisms, used in scientific research.
    • Age-matched IFN-γ-deficient (IFN-γ -/- ) mice on a C57BL/6 background [23 ] were bred at the Laboratory for Experimental Biomedicine (EBM), University of Gothenburg, and all mice were housed in microisolators for the duration of the study. 2015 July 14, “Defining the Roles of IFN-γ and IL-17A in Inflammation and Protection against Helicobacter pylori Infection”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

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