[kī-mîŕĭźəm, kī́mə-rĭź-]
(n.)The condition of being a genetic chimera.
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Typically seen in non-human zoology (but also discovered to a rare extent in human beings), a chimera is an animal that has two or more different populations of genetically distinct cells that origi...
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27 I am Chimeric. My gynecologist was the first person to figure out what the heck was going on with me, and she was very excited. She published a paper on me. She died a year later, which was seven years ago, and I am still finding out str...
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Around 30 similar instances of chimerism have been reported, and there are probably many more out there who will never discover their unusual origins. ...
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Online Medical Dictionary and glossary with medical definitions ... Chimera: In medicine, a person composed of two genetically distinct types of cells. Human chimeras were first discovered with the advent of blood typing when it was found that some people had more than one blood type. ... Most of them proved to be "blood chimeras" --
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It is the third type, tetragametic chimerism, that interests us here, someone who has at least two different genotypes which each arose from an individual zygote and eventually fused, when normally they would have developed separately as twins. ... There are, in fact, three types of chimerism. Blood, or artificial,
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BACKGROUND: Hematopoietic chimerism has been demonstrated to be relevant for donor cell engraftment and detection of minimal residual disease after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (aHCT). ... Capillary electrophoresis displayed a high sensitivity and accuracy for detecting a mixed chimerism in vitro and in vivo.
www.medscape.com/medline/abstract/15877797
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the value of sequential and quantitative analysis of donor chimerism (DC) to predict the outcome of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT), to determine the optimal time point of adoptive immunotherapy and to estimate the efficacy of adoptive immunotherapy.
www.medscape.com/medline/abstract/16780733
Chimerism utilizes an online submission and tracking system designed to provide efficient service to authors. Through the online system, author files are automatically converted to PDFs, submissions are acknowledged by email, and authors can track their manuscript through the stages of the peer review process.
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chimerism n. The condition of being a genetic chimera. ... The state of being a chimera; the presence in an animal of cells of different origin, e.g. XX/XY chimerism.
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