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What does axenic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (biology) Containing only a single species of microorganism. For example, an "axenic culture" is a pure grown sample of the organism in question.
  2. (biology) Isolated from organisms of any other species.
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The control culture was also more toxic in terms of saxitoxin equivalents than the axenic culture.
In such special conditions, it will be possible to consider the modifications observed at the level of the intestinal mucosa cells of axenic mice as specific and related to the introduction of the bacteria studied.
The difficulties in obtaining axenic cultures of these fungi have not been fully overcome.
Experiments that showed a PPFM strain could stimulate growth and development of a leafy liverwort in axenic culture were reported some time ago.
Human beings are born axenic, in other words with no germs whatsoever in the digestive tract.
Primary sporocysts were obtained after overnight axenic culture of miracidia as described.

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