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The ability of the CHO-MK cells to incorporate thymidine in response to IGF-I is markedly diminished as compared to the parental cell line (Figure 1B).
Interestingly, three wild type HSV-2 polymerases (6652, 83D and SB5) showed mutation frequencies similar to HSV-1 SC16, rather than their parental virus, when placed within an HSV-1 genome.
In this sentence, "its" cries out for its parental noun like a little duckling left on the wrong side of the road.
All constructs were transformed into the parental JH10 strain or HS1, a myosin-II heavy chain ( mhcA -) null strain [ 13 ] , unless otherwise indicated.
[ 11 ] Older children often are given the opportunity to learn about hypnosis outside of their parents' presence in order to minimize their anxiety about successful performance, or to allay concerns about parental interference.