hybridoma

English

Etymology

From hybrid +‎ -oma.

Noun

hybridoma (plural hybridomas or hybridomata)

1. (immunology) A hybrid cell engineered from a lymphocyte and a tumour cell; used to generate monoclonal antibodies
   • 1982, Saad A. Noeman, Dhirendra N.Misra, Robert J. Yankes, Heinz W. Kunz, Thomas J. Gill III, “Growth of Rat-mouse hybridomas in nude mice and nude rats”, in Journal of Immunological Methods, →DOI:

     Athymic (nude) mice and rats were inoculated intraperitoneally with rat-mouse hybridoma cells secreting monoclonal antibodies to rat MHC class I antigens in order to improve the yield of antibodies.

Derived terms

• heterohybridoma

Translations

Translations

• Italian: ibridoma (it)