microisolator
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]microisolator (plural microisolators)
- A kind of animal cage with a filter to keep out microorganisms, used in scientific research.
- 2015 July 14, “Defining the Roles of IFN-γ and IL-17A in Inflammation and Protection against Helicobacter pylori Infection”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- Age-matched IFN-γ-deficient (IFN-γ -/- ) mice on a C57BL/6 background [23 ] were bred at the Laboratory for Experimental Biomedicine (EBM), University of Gothenburg, and all mice were housed in microisolators for the duration of the study.