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Heterokaryon

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A cell with two separate nuclei formed by the experimental fusion of two genetically different cells.

(Heterokaryons, for example, composed of nuclei from Hurler syndrome and Hunter syndrome, both diseases of mucopolysaccharide metabolism, have normal mucopolysaccharide metabolism proving that the two syndromes affect different proteins and so can correct each other in the heterokaryon).

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