Definition of Coculture
1. [v -TURED, -TURING, -TURES]
Medical Definition of Coculture
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| Growth of distinct cell types in a combined culture. In order to get some cells to grow at low (clonal) density it is sometimes helpful to grow them together with a feeder layer of macrophages or irradiated cells.
The mixing of different cell types in culture is otherwise normally avoided, although it is possible that this could prove an informative approach to modelling interactions in vivo.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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