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EXPERIMENTAL CONDITION - ANNOTATIONS

The Clinical Measurement Ontology (CMO), Measurement Methods Ontology (MMO), and Experimental Condition Ontology (XCO) are currently being developed at the Rat Genome Database. For more information about these vocabularies please see Shimoyama et al. Three ontologies to define phenotype measurement data. Front Genet. 2012;3:87. Epub 2012 May 28 or contact us (http://rgd.mcw.edu/contact/index.shtml).

Term:cancer cells
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Accession:XCO:0000709 term browser browse the term
Definition:A condition in which cells from one organism are used to cause cancer in another organism by injection of, or other means of transferring, live cells from the donor organism to the host organism. Cancer is a disease characterized by uncontrolled cellular proliferation, local cell invasion and metastasis.
Synonyms:exact_synonym: malignant neoplasm cells;   malignant tumor cells
 narrow_synonym: carcinoma cells;   primary cancer cells;   sarcoma cells
 broad_synonym: tumor cells



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        BT4C cells 0
        CC531 cells 0
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        rat IgM immunocytoma cells 0
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