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Sendai virus

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noun

Pathology, Veterinary Pathology.

  1. a paramyxovirus that tends to cause cell fusion: in inactive form, used in biological research to produce cells with multiple nuclei of different genetic constitutions.

Etymology

Origin of Sendai virus

1960–65; first described in Sendai, Japan

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He infects the leukocytes with Sendai virus, an influenza-like virus harmless to humans, and incubates them at 37.5?

From Time Magazine Archive

Parainfluenza 1 was first called Sendai virus, after the Japanese city where it was originally isolated.

From Time Magazine Archive

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