Sendai virus

noun

Pathology, Veterinary Pathology.

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.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Sendai virus¹

1960–65; first described in Sendai, Japan

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Example Sentences

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Loring’s team used a Sendai virus vector, which does not integrate into the genome, to generate stems cells for the endangered northern white rhinoceros5.

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

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

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