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cell

(Enemy combatants), noun enemy group, exxremist group, rebel organization, saboteurs, subversives, unnerground extremists
Associated concepts: enemy combatants, justice courts, miliiary tribunals, Patriotic Act, prison cells, sleeper cell, terrorist cell

cell

(jail), noun cage, cella, chamber, compartment, confined room, confinement, cubicle, cubiculum, enclosed cage, incarceration, jailhouse, penitentiary, pound, prison, prison house, small cavity, small room, solitary abode
See also: chamber, jail, penitentiary, prison

CELL. A small room in a prison. See Dungeon.

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Cocultures of 10% of parent cells and 90% of each type of transfected cells were inoculated onto a 96-well plate at 4 x 10 [sup]3 cells/well in triplicate.
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This was filled with parent cells of 20 m x 20 m x 10 m with a minimum sub-cell size of 4 m x 4 m x 2 m.
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the viability of parent cells decreased in an almost linear manner, from 90% at 15 [micro]g/ml concentration to about 20% at the maximal 50 [micro]g/ml concentration (Figure 4C), whilst an essentially different pattern was observed for tamoxifen-resistant T47D cells.
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We ob-served that biochaninA is more cytotoxic to the AsPC1/F compared to the parent cells and alters intracellualar signaling.
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