释义 |
Sendai Biol. and Med.|ˈsɛndaɪ| The name of a city in northern Honshu, Japan, used attrib. as Sendai virus, a paramyxovirus (first identified in Sendai) which causes disease of the upper respiratory tract in mammals, and is used in the laboratory to produce cell fusion.
[1953T. Sano et al. in Yokohama Med. Bull. IV. 215 We consider this disease a new form of virus pneumonitis and have termed it ‘Newborn Virus Pneumonitis (Type Sendai)’.] 1958Ann. Rev. Microbiol. XII. 66 Similar to the influenza virus, one of the new agents, Sendai virus, propagates sufficiently well in eggs to permit primary isolation by amniotic inoculation. 1970Nature 25 July 339/2 The possibility of introducing alien genetic material into mammalian eggs by fusion with somatic cells using Sendai virus. 1976Ann. Rev. Microbiol. XXX. 29 The transcriptive complex of a representative paramyxovirus, Sendai virus, contains a major structural polypeptide, NP..a less abundant polypeptide, P..and a high-molecular-weight polypeptide that is present in minute amounts. |