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Chinese hamster ovary cell

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Chinese hamster ovary cell (plural Chinese hamster ovary cells)

  1. (biology, zoology, cytology) A family of immortalized cell lines derived from the epithelial cells of the ovary of the Chinese hamster, often used in biological and medical research and commercially in the production of recombinant therapeutic proteins.
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