contact inhibition
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of contact inhibition
First recorded in 1960–65
Example Sentences
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This response — called contact inhibition — stops cells from multiplying out of control.
From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2013
If these findings hold up, it's not clear how they might be marshaled to improve human health, since the naked mole rat's system of "early contact inhibition" still wouldn't apply to human cells.
From Slate • Nov. 18, 2011
To explain the extraordinary resistance of the NMR to cancer, a two-tier protective mechanism involving contact inhibition mediated by p16 and p27 was proposed.
From Nature • Nov. 15, 2011
The involvement of p16 is unusual, since humans and mice show only contact inhibition mediated by p27.
From Nature • Nov. 15, 2011
But cancer cells lack this "contact inhibition," and are joined by intimate bonds or "bridges" of cellular material.
From Time Magazine Archive
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