enucleated

English

Adjective

enucleated (not comparable)

  1. Having been enucleated.
    • 1905, Naohide Yatsu, The Formation of Centrosomes in Enucleated Egg-fragments, page 304:
      Five enucleated fragments were cut from the egg immediately after they were released and kept for an hour in the sterilized water;
    • 2012, Carl A. Pinkert, Transgenic Animal Technology, page 197:
      For the nuclear transfer of somatic cells in farm animals, donor cells are fused with enucleated oocytes by eletric stimulation.
    • 2013, Jose Cibelli, Ian Wilmut, Rudolf Jaenisch, Principles of Cloning, page 188:
      When nuclei of medaka adult somatic cells were used as donors for transfer into enucleated recipient eggs, successful development of transplant embryos was markedly reduced (unpublished data); however, fertile, diploid NTs had been produced in previous studies in which embryonic cell nuclei were transferred into enucleated eggs.

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Verb

enucleated

  1. simple past and past participle of enucleate

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