African green monkey kidney cells

(thing) by BioTech (1.2 wk) Fri May 31 2002 at 17:35:00
Cells taken from the kidneys of the African green monkey Cercopithecus aethiops sabaeus which are cultured and used to grow certain viruses like polio virus.

From the BioTech Dictionary at http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/. For further information see the BioTech homenode.

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