Sentences with phrase «cell shapes became»

Cell shapes became progressively less elongated and less variable as they jammed, and more elongated and more variable as they unjammed.

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Recent evidence also shows that nicotine can cause cancer cells to change their shape, increase their motility and become metastatic.

In people with sickle cell anemia, molecules of sickle hemoglobin clump together and form long rods that cause red blood cells to become rigid and take on a sickle shape.

In previous research, Amir observed that under similar bending forces bacteria become plastically deformed, meaning when the bending force was removed, E. coli cells snapped back to a straighter, but still bent, shape.

The process, reported in Human Reproduction, utilizes DNA fingerprinting (an assessment of active genes in a given cell) to boost the success rate of IVF and lower the chances of risky multiple births by identifying which of several five - day - old embryos are most likely to result in pregnancy The new method, which will replace unproved alternatives such as choosing embryos based on their shape, is likely to up the success of women becoming pregnant and lower their chances of having multiple births.

Liu and his team became interested in the phenomenon of Treg cell instability after earlier studies had hinted at Treg cells» shape - shifting abilities but no specific molecular mechanism ensuring their functional stability — or lack thereof — had been identified.

In fact, tests undertaken on red blood cells showed that the star - shaped polymer dosage rate would need to be increased by a factor of greater than 100 to become toxic.

When the protein is present, these cells that start out round and stuck together in a pattern resembling cobblestones become irregularly shaped and tend to detach from the tumor site in an uncoordinated way — hallmarks of metastasis.

Most common among people of African descent, the disorder causes oxygen - carrying red blood cells, which are normally flexible and round, to become rigid and take on a crescent (or sickle) shape.

Illinois researchers found that the shape of a tumor may play a role in how cancer cells become primed to spread.

Before the cell can use microtubules for these and other essential functions, it must first organize them into carefully crafted bundles, which become the basis for three dimensional shapes.

The elongated fibroblasts reprogrammed to become more T - cell - like in shape and hundreds of T - cell genes were also expressed in these skin cells.

With their choanoflagellate - like choanocyte cells and a second type of cell, an archaeocyte, that can shift shape and function as needed to absorb food, secrete new skin, or reproduce, they became the first multicellular animals.

Nerves and heart muscle start to struggle as vital communication channels in the cell membranes are squeezed, and many proteins can not fold into their correct three - dimensional shape properly, becoming physically deformed.

Rather than soft, pliable red blood cells that travel easily through blood vessels, the sickle cell mutation leaves patients with red blood cells that can become brittle and banana - shaped.

This type of hemoglobin was found to prevent red blood cells from becoming sickle - shaped.

When red blood cells contain «sickle» hemoglobin, they become crescent - shaped, rather than disc - shaped.

By contrast, the passenger cell between the A-pillar and the interior part of the C - pillar becomes narrower when viewed from the front to the rear — an avant - garde interplay of extremely powerful shapes.

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