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Pronounciation of few words in Bioscience - (Nov/20/2011 )

Guys, does anyone know how are these word pronounced? HaCat cells. Is it like HCat or hakat or..HCT?

Another cell line is CaCo-2. How to pronounce it? CC-2? or...

then caspase-3 also called DEVD-ase? How do we pronounce it? D-E-V-Dase or DEV-days or..?

thanks a bunch

-kedar-

HaCat are normally pronounced Ha (a as in apple) Cat. I don't know about the others, other than I have never heard Caspase-3 called DEVDase.

-bob1-