Ex Vivo (Adjective)
Meaning
Of a biological process occurring in an artificial environment outside the living organism; "in vitro fertilization".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The team of researchers studied the effects of cancer treatment on immune cells in an ex vivo experiment using human tissue samples.
- Biomedical engineers developed an ex vivo model to research and test the impact of different factors on heart cells after a heart attack.
- This study describes a rapid and cost-effective ex vivo system for the detection and screening of various air pollutants on living lung cells.
- Ex vivo models can replicate the mechanisms involved in various diseases, allowing researchers to understand how the disease develops in real tissue.
- The scientists used ex vivo testing to grow and analyze human skin cells that had been damaged by excessive UV radiation exposure.