immunoselection

selection of cell lines according to their resistance to antibodies.

Noun

  1. selection of cell lines according to their resistance to antibodies.
    • They have beautifully demonstrated the existence of an 'immunoselection', i.e. the preferential survival of less antigenic cell types in the foreign environment. - 1957, Symposia of the Society for Experimental Biology,...
    • Thus, immunoselection of neoplastic leukocytes, both away from and back to the H-2-specific diploid genotype, can be experimentally controlled through the use of appropriate hosts. - 1957, John W. Rebuck, The Leukemias:...
    • Immunoselection involves the use of an antibody or a collection of antibodies. - 2003, Maurizio Federico, Lentivirus Gene Engineering Protocols, page 125:

Origin

From immuno- + selection.

Forms

immunoselections

Related

immunoselective