(not comparable, cytology) of or pertaining to proliferation, especially of cells
1988, Nydia G. Testa & Robert Peter Gale, Hematopoiesis: Long-Term Effects of Chemotherapy and Radiation, Informa Health Care, ISBN 082477938X, page 327:"...stem cells may thus lose some of their proliferative potential and thus 'age'..."
2000, Yvonne A. & Christopher R. Barnett, Aging: Methods and Protocols, Humana Press, ISBN 0896035824, page 40:"cultures of cells may be considered to have reached the end of their proliferative lifespan when the cell number fails to double."
2007, Eduardo M. Torres et al., "Effects of Aneuploidy on Cellular Physiology and Cell Division in Haploid Yeast," Science 317(5840), 904, page 916:"We conclude that aneuploidy causes not only a proliferative disadvantage but also a set of phenotypes..."
1940, Albert B. Sabin and Joel Warren, "The Curative Effect of Certain Gold Compounds on Experimental Proliferative, Chronic Arthritis in Mice," Journal of Bacteriology 40(6):"...they give rise to a progressive, proliferative, chronic arthritis."
