Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The condition of being a genetic chimera.
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- noun genetics The property of being a
genetic chimera .
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Examples
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Contemporary use of the term chimerism derives from the idea of a
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However, there is another way to create a hybrid race, called chimerism, which is a process of combining embryos from two species to create a brand new one.
X-Files: Science Fact or Fiction? Kristen Philipkoski Brad King 2002
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And unless there ` s a transfusion or a very unusual genetic anomaly called chimerism, it ` s not going to happen.
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Engraftment monitoring, also called chimerism testing, by DNA utilizes methodology commonly used in human identity testing.
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Hedrick MH, Rice HE, MacGillvray TE, Bealer JF, Zanjani ED, Flake AW: Hematopoietic chimerism achieved by in-utero hematopoietic stem cell injection does not induce donor specific tolerance or renal allografts in sheep.
Fetal Stem Cell Transplantation, In Utero Stemm Cell Publications 2010
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Creation of pig-sheep xenogeneic chimerism by the in-utero transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells.
Fetal Stem Cell Transplantation, In Utero Stemm Cell Publications 2010
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Woese then hazarded that such chimerism probably would not prove a significant problem, from the example provided by congruent alpha-proteobacterial trees based on cytochromes c and rRNA, from the general robustness of the rRNA phylogeny, and from its ability to predict certain domain-level phenotypic characters (for instance, the differences in bacterial and archaeal cell envelopes, transcription, and translation).
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Mixed chimerism following in utero hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in murine models of hemoglobinopathy.
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Rice HE, Hendrick MH, Flake AW: In-utero transplantation of rat hematopoietic stem cells induces xenogeneic chimerism in mice.
Fetal Stem Cell Transplantation, In Utero Stemm Cell Publications 2010
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Rice HE, Flake AW, Hedrick MH, Zanjani ED, Harrison MR: Effect of xenogeneic chimerism in a human/sheep model on natural antibody.
Fetal Stem Cell Transplantation, In Utero Stemm Cell Publications 2010
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