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interferonic

interferonic adjective: pertaining to or characteristic of interferons.

Adjective

interferonic (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to or characteristic of interferons.
    • Expression of the transgene was found in the mammary gland of lactating founder transgenic mice 26 and 28: the hybrid BLG-hIFN-g mRNA was detected in the mammary gland tissue (Fig. 3) and an interferonic activity of about 1,800 IU/ml was observed in the milk samples (Table I), which corresponds to...1993 March, V.N. Dobrovolsky, O.V. Lagutin, T.V. Vinogradova, I.S. Frolova, V.P. Kuznetsov, O.A. Larionov, “Human γ-interferon expression in the mammary gland of transgenic mice”, in FEBS Letters...

Origin of interferonic

From interferon + -ic.

Questions about interferonic

What does interferonic mean?
Interferonic means pertaining to or characteristic of interferons.
What part of speech is interferonic?
Interferonic is an adjective.

Words near interferonic in the dictionary

  1. interferometrists
  2. interferometry
  3. interferomic
  4. interferomics
  5. interferon
  6. interferonic
  7. interferonopathies
  8. interferonopathy
  9. interferons
  10. interfertile
  11. interfertility

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