lysate
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of lysate
Example Sentences
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Mice vaccinated with this nanoparticle lysate vaccine were later exposed to melanoma, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, or triple-negative breast cancer cells.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2025
The horseshoe crabs are valuable because their blood can be manufactured into limulus amebocyte lysate, or LAL, that is used to detect pathogens in indispensable medicines such as injectable antibiotics.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2023
Scientists harnessed nature’s ingenuity, using crab blood to make so-called amebocyte lysate endotoxin tests which, by the 1970s, began displacing tests on rabbits that were injected with medicine then monitored for fever.
From Reuters ● Aug. 1, 2019
Human skeletal myoblast lysate was purchased from ZenBio TCE-SKB and lysate from differentiated human skeletal myotubes was purchased from ZenBio TCE-SKM.
From Nature ● Mar. 21, 2017
Called the limulus amoebocyte lysate assay, this "gold standard of testing" relies on exposing the drug under investigation to horseshoe crabs' blood.
From US News ● Jun. 30, 2011
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