[ UK /ˈɪnkjuːbˌe‍ɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈɪnkjəˌbeɪt/ ]
VERB
  1. sit on (eggs)
    Birds brood
    The female covers the eggs
  2. grow under conditions that promote development
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How To Use incubate In A Sentence

  • Twenty microliters of each antibody was added to 100 L of blood, and the mixture was incubated at room temperature for 15 minutes.
  • Daudi B cells were incubated in RPMI culture medium containing 0, 100 or 1000 nM CXCL12, 50 µM cycloheximide, and washed briefly with 1 M NaCl, 50 mM glycine, pH 3. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • In experiments that test the effect of actin, cells were incubated for 30 min before experiments in medium containing 20 M cytochalasin D to disrupt actin filaments.
  • Doctors "incubated" the girl and planned on taking her to the Staten Island University Hospital's burn unit, sources said. WN.com - Articles related to Boston weighs smoke-free public housing
  • The female builds the nest and incubates and broods alone, but both parents feed the chicks, which fledge within 14-16 days of hatching.
  • The temperature at which the eggs of ectothermic vertebrates incubate can influence several phenotypic traits of offspring.
  • When most birds incubate eggs, the females often produce high levels of prolactin, a hormone involved in parental behavior.
  • More than a dozen large eggs were arrayed around the pool, close enough to incubate, but not so close as to cook the young. RISE OF A MERCHANT PRINCE: BOOK TWO OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
  • The startling result was a marked increase in the density of the fibrillar halo around the ganglia incubated in the presence of the tumoral fraction treated with snake venom. Nobel Lecture The Nerve Growth Factor: Thirty-Five Years Later
  • The cells were fixed and permeabilized with Cytofix/Cytoperm ™ buffer (BD BioScience) for 20 minutes at 4°C and incubated with allophycocyanin anti-IFN-γ or corresponding isotype controls (eBioscience) for 20 minutes on ice. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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