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TRANSFECTION

Specialty Definition: TRANSFECTION

DomainDefinition

Health

The uptake of naked or purified DNA into cells, usually eukaryotic. It is analogous to bacterial transformation. (references)

Medicine

The infection of a cell or protoplast with isolated virus nucleic acid(DNA or RNA)resulting in the production of intact virus particles. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: TRANSFECTION

Specialty definitions using "TRANSFECTION": COS CellsElectroporationGene TherapypolyethylenimineTransformation, Bacterial. (references)

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Commercial Usage: TRANSFECTION

DomainTitle

Books

  • Modern trends in bacterial transformation and transfection : proceedings of the third European Meeting on Bacterial Transformation and Transfection, Granada, Spain, August 31-September 3, 1976 (reference)

  • Transfection and Gene Transfer: Technologies and Markets [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • Transformation, 1980 : proceedings of the Fifth European Meeting on Bacterial Transformation and Transfection, Florence, Italy, 2-5 September 1980 (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: TRANSFECTION

"TRANSFECTION" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TRANSFECTION" is used about 104 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%10431,955

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: TRANSFECTION

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "TRANSFECTION": co-transfection.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: TRANSFECTION

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

transfection

29

cell transfection

8

stable transfection

4

protocol transfection

3

transient transfection

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TRANSFECTION

Language Translations for "TRANSFECTION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

transfektion. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

transfectie. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

transfektio. (various references)

   

French

  

transfection. (various references)

   

German

  

Transfektion. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μόλυνση με πυρηνικό οξύ, μεταμόλυνση, αλληλογονιδιωματική μόλυνση, διαμόλυνση. (various references)

   

Italian

  

trasfezione, transfezione. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

移入 (importation, ingression, migration). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

いにゅう (importation, ingression, migration). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ansfectiontray

   

Portuguese

  

transfecção. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

transfección de ADN, transfección. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

transfektion. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: TRANSFECTION

Derivations

Words beginning with "TRANSFECTION": transfections. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: TRANSFECTION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-i-n-n-o-r-s-t-t"

-1 letter: transection.

-2 letters: carnotites, constraint, containers, crenations, fornicates, stentorian.

-3 letters: anointers, anoretics, cannister, canonries, carnotite, confiners, constrain, container, cornetist, cotenants, craftiest, creations, crenation, factories, fetations, fornicate, fractions, infectors, infestant, instanter, interacts, intonates, intranets, nonartist, reactions, reanoints, stationer, taconites, tractions, transfect, transient, transonic, trifectas.

-4 letters: aconites, actinons, ancestor, ancients, anointer, anoretic, canister, canniest, canoeist, canonise, canonist.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-f-i-n-n-o-r-s-t-t"
 

+1 letter: transfections.

 

+3 letters: centrifugations, confraternities, gentrifications.

 

+4 letters: denitrifications, prenotifications.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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