Meaning & use
Microsome
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A small particle formed from fragments of the endoplasmic reticulum, produced when cells are broken apart in a laboratory.
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Researchers isolated microsomes from liver cells to study drug metabolism.
The enzyme activity was measured in a suspension of microsomes.
A note on using this word
Microsomes are not naturally occurring cell structures but laboratory artifacts created during cell fractionation, widely used to study how the liver metabolizes drugs.
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