Print whole glossary

• TGF

  Transforming Growth Factor

• TGM

  Thioglycollate medium

• Tissue Culture

  Traditionally, the maintenance of fragments of tissue in vitro , but commonly is used as a generic term including tissue explant culture, organ culture and dispersed cell cultures, ie cell lines and cell strains.

• TMC

  Trudeau Mycobacterial Culture Collection, Saranac Lake, New York, USA

• Totipotency

  A cell characteristic in which the potential for forming the entire cell types in the adult organism is retained.

• tPA

  Plasminogen Activator

• TPB

  Tryptose Phosphate Broth

• Transfection

  The transfer, for the purposes of genomic integration, of naked, foreign DNA into cells in culture. The traditional microbiological usage of this term implied that the DNA being transferred was derived from a virus. The definition as stated here is that which is in use to describe the general transfer of DNA irrespective of its sources, eg cloned genes.

• Transformed Cells

  Cells that have changed or have been changed in a way that differs to their normal counterparts.

• TSH

  Thyroid Stimulating Hormone