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• IAM

  Institute of Applied Microbiology, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

• IBMX

  3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine

• ICLAC

  International Cell Line Authentication Committee

• ICPB

  International Collection of Phytopathogenic Bacteria, Davis, California, USA

• IDA

  International Depository Authorities

• IDMEM

  Iscoves Modified Dulbecco's Medium

• IFO

  Institute for Fermentation, Osaka, Japan

• IL

  Interleukin

• IMET

  Institute for Microbiology and Experimental Therapy, Jena, Germany

• Immortalisation

  The attainment by a finite cell culture, whether by perturbation or intrinsically, of the attributes of a continuous cell line. An immortalised cell is not necessarily one, which is neoplastically or malignantly transformed.

• IMRU

  Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers, The State University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

• IMVS

  Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, Adelaide, Australia

• In Vitro Neoplastic Transformation

  The acquisition, by cultured cells, of the property to form neoplasms, benign or malignant, when inoculated into animals.   Many transformed cell populations which arise in vitro intrinsically or through deliberate manipulation by the investigator, produce only benign tumours, that is, tumours which show no local invasion or metastasis following animal inoculation.

• In Vitro Senescence

  In vertebrate cell culture, the property attributable to finite cell cultures, namely their inability to grow beyond a finite number of population doubling, eg MRC-5, WI38 cells. Neither invertebrate nor plant cell cultures exhibit this property.

• In Vitro Transformation

  A heritable change, occurring in cells in culture, either intrinsically or from treatment with chemical carcinogens, oncogenic viruses, irradiation, transfection with oncogenes, etc and leading to the acquisition of altered morphological, antigenic, neoplastic, proliferative, or other properties.

• IP

  Department of Insect Pathology, Institute of Entomology, Prague, Czechoslovakia

• IP

  Ye L'Institut Pasteur (Centre des Yersinia), Paris, France

• IPDH

  Institute of Poultry Diseases, Hannover, Germany

• ISC

  Designation supplied by the International Salmonella Centre when located at the Statens Seruminstitut, Copenhagen, Denmark